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...deal was an obvious win for the Senate, as well as for House Democrats who had largely voted against the bill that passed their chamber. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said it was hard to imagine airports actually exercising the bill's option to hire private baggage screeners. But Lott--who once held DeLay's job in the House--had come up with a way for House Republicans to save face. And if they didn't take it, Hollings threatened to push the "compromise" through the Senate anyway, and put House Republicans in the position of killing it. By the time...
...Officials aren?t sure what to believe about the man?s story at this point, but they are sure of one thing: The O?Hare airport security system experienced what Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta called "a failure of dramatic dimensions...
...That?s Alan Greenspan?s new part-time job. The task of the newly formed Air Transportation Stabilization Board, headed by the Fed head (or his representative) and rounded out by Treasury Secretary Paul O?Neill, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta, and U.S. Comptroller General David M. Walker, is to figure out how to disburse those $10 billion in loan guarantees (essentially a government co-sign that allows banks to make bad loans to desperate carriers at reasonable rates). To decide which airlines get how much money at what rates, and what, if anything, they have...
...event the teetering-on-the-edge travel industry had been anticipating for weeks: George W. Bush's plan to make air travel safer. House Speaker Dennis Hastert and Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta flew United into Chicago?s O?Hare airport to join Bush for a stump speech that had one stated goal: to get America flying again...
...most depressing stories I heard is of the Famous Gazillionaire Businessman who found himself and his private jet marooned in Europe when all U.S. airports were shut down. He got in touch with Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who personally refused his entreaties. Then the FGB took his request all the way to the President of the United States to get an exemption for his plane on the simple grounds that as a Famous Gazillionaire Businessman he was critical to the functioning of America. To his eternal credit, when Mineta got the second request from the White House, he refused...