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DEMOCRATS REGAIN SENATE CONTROL
Vermont Sen. Jim Jeffords announced Thursday that he is leaving the
Republican Party to become an Independent. This decision gave
Democrats control of the Senate for the first time since 1994. Pilot
Tom Daschle of South Dakota is now the majority leader of the Senate.
Sen. John McCain of Arizona must relinquish the chairmanship of the
Senate Commerce Committee to user fee opponent Ernest Hollings of
South Carolina. And AOPA member Ted Stevens of Alaska will no longer
chair the powerful Senate Appropriations Committee. AOPA will continue
to monitor the ramifications for general aviation.

See ( http://www.aopa.org/whatsnew/newsitems/2001/010524jeffords.html
).



On Fri, 11 May 2001 03:44:43 GMT, Larry Dighera
<LDighera@socal.rr.com> wrote:

>McCain writes essay supporting ATC privatization
>
>
>May 9 — Arizona Senator John McCain is calling once again for a
>privatized air traffic control corporation funded by user fees. In an
>essay in Wednesday’s The Hill newspaper dedicated to transportation
>issues, Senator McCain wrote that the current ATC system, “has become
>a constraint on the growth of aviation. . . It may be that ATC can
>best be provided by a corporate entity that is outside the normal
>government structure and funded directly by a bondable stream of fees
>and charges for ATC services.” He also stated that he supports an
>exemption for “recreational general aviation” from such fees and
>charges. Senator McCain intends to schedule a hearing in the Commerce
>Committee to explore this issue. McCain’s views were not supported by
>other key aviation leaders who were more in sync with AOPA’s views
>of modernization of the ATC system and the need for more runways. To
>read all the essays, visit http://www.hillnews.com/tss_main.htm

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