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Congress: Flights of FancyNow, maybe we missed something, but isn't this the Congress that: * Says it wants to cut spending? * Is so environment-conscious that it regularly complains about the evil carbon footprints allegedly left by private jets?
Opposition Emerges to House's Jet SpreeBipartisan opposition is emerging in the Senate to a plan by House lawmakers to spend $550 million for additional passenger jets for senior government officials.
Wall Street CEOs Still Flying Private JetsIn a House Financial Services Committee hearing today, Rep. Brad Sherman (D-CA) asked bailed-out bank CEOs if their companies still "own or lease" private planes. Only one (Goldman Sachs CEO Lloyd Blankenfein) out of eight did not raise his hand.
GM Asks U.S. FAA to Bar Public Tracking of Leased Corporate Jet General Motors Corp., criticized by U.S. lawmakers for its use of corporate jets, asked aviation regulators to block the public's ability to track a plane it uses.
Government SUV Fleets - Big 3 flys to WA in Private Jets - What's the difference?Funny how the Hill wants to know about private jets but what are they driving? "The government owns or leases sedans, SUVs, trucks, limousines and ambulances for more than three dozen agencies, the U.S. military and the Postal Service. Are they all really necessary?"
GM to Return Two Leased Jets Amid CriticismGeneral Motors Corp(GM.N) will return two of its leased corporate jets amid intense criticism in Washington this week on the luxury travel arrangements of its chief executive even as the company pleads for federal aid.
US Auto Executives Fly To DC Asking for Taxpayer Money in Private Jets and None Offers to Work for Significantly Less than their 15 or 21 Million Dollar Salaries, Much Less Fly First-Class (why not Business Class?) on a Commericial Airline"There's a delicious irony in seeing private luxury jets flying into Washington, D.C., and people coming off of them with tin cups in their hands," Rep. Gary L. Ackerman (D-N.Y.) advised the pampered executives at a hearing yesterday.
Hey, Big Spender, Flying My Way? Hitchhikers cadge rides on private jets.BACK in Jack Kerouac's day, when people more often traveled along blacktop roads than through the jet stream, they hitched free rides by sticking out a thumb at a freeway onramp or hopping into a friend's old heap.
A detailed insight into how a terrorist attack on Britain could happen any day without warning" Earlier this week the Government's terrorism adviser, Lord Carlile QC, warned there was 'real anxiety' that private jets might be used as 'vehicle bombs' in terrorist attacks on Britain.
Private Jets and Million-Dollar Bras: Gifts for the Rich and FamousThese days, jet-setters want more than just to fly from private island to private island — they want the whole jet.
Private Jets, the new business transportationToday many business not only require their employees to travel in the United States but abroad as well. For traveling exectives, traveling for business on jet aircraft a walk in the park.
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