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...addition, Nesson made a motion to put Matthew J. Oppenheim, a former senior vice president for the RIAA, under oath for questioning...
...than 12 crashes per year since 1998. The past 15 months have been the deadliest yet: there have been 18 helicopter-ambulance crashes since October 2007, including 11 fatal accidents that left 36 people dead. "The current accident record is unacceptable, and it has to improve," says Robert Sumwalt, vice chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board, which investigates air crashes...
...technology, flight and weather tracking systems, and stricter weather minimums at the top of its "most wanted" list of changes to reduce fatalities. The board first recommended these changes three years ago. Had the FAA implemented them, 29 of the last 55 accidents could have been prevented, says NTSB vice chairman Robert Sumwalt. "We want to pressure the FAA to make changes so that these crashes stop occurring," Sumwalt says."We take this as seriously as the NTSB," counters Peggy Gilligan, the FAA's top safety official...
Obama advisers say there is still plenty of time to create a bill that can attract more Republican support. "I think you will see it get better," Vice President Joe Biden said in an interview Thursday on CNBC. "And I also think you will see Republicans voting for it." House Republican leaders also claim to be optimistic that a better compromise can be created. Just hours after the House vote Wednesday night, Representative John Boehner, who leads the GOP caucus, joined Obama at a White House cocktail reception. According to aides, Boehner told the President not to take the House...
...Karzai government are undermining the war effort. NATO Secretary-General Jaap de Hoop Scheffer recently wrote in the Washington Post that "the problem in Afghanistan is not too much Taliban; it's too little good governance" and warned bluntly that the alliance expects Karzai to do a better job. Vice President Joe Biden visited Kabul shortly before the Inauguration and reportedly warned Karzai that the new Administration would hold his feet to the fire over governance complaints. (See pictures of soldiers in Afghanistan...