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When Lieberman-Warner reaches the Senate floor, probably in June, the talk has to get serious. Clinton voted for the bill in committee, but may abandon the bill if it moves to the right in search of votes. (The bill's champion, Senate Environment Committee chairman Barbara Boxer, has vowed not to let that happen.) McCain hasn't embraced the bill, even though he has a real record on the issue. He and Lieberman sponsored cap-and-trade bills in 2003, 2005 and early 2007, when most Senators were missing in action. During the primary, he downplayed that history...
...whistle-blowers tells TIME he's got additional cases coming down the runway that could do just that. And the FAA warns that sloppy maintenance work - like that which resulted in the grounding of more than 3,000 American Airlines flights last week - could occur through the end of June as the FAA wraps up a two-phase inspection process...
...spokeswoman Allison Duqette. "But there's no way for me to really predict what is going to happen." The two-phase review didn't start with the most challenging ADs, which means that the chance of more trouble for the airlines remains the same until the audit process concludes June 30. Aviation experts say the older an airline's fleet, like those used by the big legacy carriers such as American, Northwest and United, the more likely its planes are to be grounded...
...many carriers had been allowed to do with previous enforcement actions? "We would not have approved that," Duquette says. "Given what we found at Southwest Airlines, we feel we needed to step up our focus on AD compliance for a couple months. But that should be ending in June and hopefully there will be no disruption to summer travel plans...
...recent realignments in foreign relations have seemed substantial - France's new engagement with the U.S.; musical chairs in the Kremlin; the Shi'a revival; the defeat of Australia's long-serving Prime Minister John Howard; indeed, the departure in June last year of Blair - none of them match the seismic shift expected on Nov. 4. Despite the growing power of China and India and a resurgent Russia, the election of a new U.S. President is still the biggest event in the international political calendar...