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...this year, grass-roots revolts have shelved Senators Frank Lausche of Ohio and Thomas Kuchel of California. Now a similar syndrome threatens Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney, 66, a 30-year Capitol Hill veteran and his state's senior member of Congress...
Oklahoma Senator Mike Monroney says aviation needs 600 new airports right now, costing an immediate $3 billion, plus $8 billion more in the next decade. Every ten days, 13 new commercial jets take off to join the 2,521 already in the air; 17 new private aircraft go aloft each day. Airline traffic is up 17.4% so far this year...
...after J.F.K.'s assassination, said he would now vote for a ban on the mail-order sale of all guns because of "the violence and terror surging through the streets of every county and every state." Democrats William Proxmire and Gaylord Nelson of Wisconsin, Edmund Muskie of Maine, Mike Monroney of Oklahoma and Republican Hugh Scott of Pennsylvania said that they, too, were preparing to switch...
...When Congress convenes next month, it will see one new proposal-a Senate Aviation Subcommittee call to spend $3 billion immediately, a total of $7 billion by 1975. Having just completed two months of hearings-the first thorough congressional review of airport problems since 1958-Subcommittee Chairman Mike Monroney says: "Every witness conceded that we are in a state of crisis...
Private Problem. Monroney would spend the money on new flight-control systems and more metropolitan-area airports, with a view to handling the future's jumbo superjets and supersonic transports. He defends the plea for earmarked special funds by citing the already overwhelming load of education, poverty programs and the Viet Nam war on the nation's general revenues. As if to underscore that point...