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...rule may soon become a relic of the past. Last week a group of twelve pilots asked the Supreme Court to review their challenge of the Age 60 regulation in which they ask for waivers to the rule. On Capitol Hill, influential Congressman John Mica, a Florida Republican who heads the House aviation subcommittee, says he will hold hearings on the topic. Even the ALPA is considering reviewing its stance...
...Congressman Lyndon Johnson was locked in a fight for his political life in Texas--an epic run for the U.S. Senate against the popular conservative former Governor, Coke Stevenson. Johnson beat Stevenson, in a runoff primary election, by 87 suspect, late-counted votes from south Texas...
...Freshman Congressman John Kennedy, recovering from his first onset of Addison's disease, learned that his sister Kathleen--the third of the golden trio of Joe Jr., Jack and "Kick"--had been killed in a plane crash while flying with her married lover for a holiday on the Riviera. Joe Jr. had died toward the end of the war in another plane, which blew up over the English Channel. Jack fell into a period of morbidity. The Kennedy family concealed the truth about Kathleen's aristocratic lover. Kennedy ever after concealed the truth about his Addison's disease; if voters...
...restriction designed to protect the majority leader. The strain is showing on DeLay, who was treated in a hospital last week for fatigue and an irregular heartbeat. And for the first time, a significant number of Republicans have begun to question DeLay's political survival. Frets a senior G.O.P. Congressman about the odor surrounding DeLay: "It just isn't going away...
...making appearances at grass-roots gatherings. At 53, Swann doesn't have any electoral experience, and so far he's been mum on his agenda except to say he is antiabortion and pro--gun rights. He has enlisted members of the team that helped vault Tom Ridge from obscure Congressman to Governor in 1995. Some think Swann could have the same appeal as another charismatic political neophyte--California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Swann is chairman of the President's Council on Physical Fitness and Sports, a job Schwarzenegger once held. And he seems to have a similar rock-star aura...