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Serving in Congress has the right, but avoid the dangers of modern air travel is not one of them.

Ask for the three senators who work for the President.

Sens. John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Hillary Clinton (DN.Y.) lost in the aftermath of flight delays campaign when a problem of ground radar flights in September, Clinton has called a meeting planned a trade union conference in Chicago from the runway in Little Rock,Ark

Plan Illinois Democratic Senator Barack Obama landed at the wrong Iowa in November and ran into another plane at Chicago Midway International Airport in January.

They are not alone. While the candidates spent more time on the road most of their colleagues, members of Congress, especially Western ones, not a good job of stacking the miles frequent flying himself.

Have horror stories to prove it.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy(D-Mass.)

busiest airport in the country is named in honor of his brother, but that neither the fact that he is a U.S. senator to save sitting Senator Edward M. Kennedy Airport 2004.According angst in March to a story in The Washington Post: The senator has been arrested five times at the airport this month, because his name was placed in a Land Security no-fly list after a suspected terrorist was found to be the 'alias "T. Kennedy."

In a SenateJudiciary Committee hearing in August 2004, Kennedy described the Kafkaesque scene as an airline ticket counter agent told him he wouldn’t be allowed to buy a ticket to Boston. “Well, why not?” Kennedy asked.

“We can’t tell you,” the agent replied.

Kennedy ultimately got on a flight, only to endure the same rigmarole when he tried to return to Washington. “I went up to the desk and said, ‘I’ve been getting on this plane for 42 years. Why can’t I get on the plane?’”

Kennedy got his name removed from the list and have an excuse to boot-land Security Secretary Tom Ridge.

It did not matter. Shortly after, another airline agent tried to stop him.

Rep. Adrian Smith (R-Neb.)

On a good day, when flying home to the small town in western Nebraska Gering Rep. Adrian Smith can depart from Ronald Reagan National Airport in Washington no later than 6 pm Eastern hour and still make it to his doorstep for 9 : 45 hours of mountainof time. To live in a rural area, Smith said he feels very fortunate for that.

But fortune often Smith when he flies to the eastern part of his district, a journey that forces him to stay in one of the corners of the Heartland of the Bermuda Triangle: Minneapolis, Chicago and Kansas City, Mo. The worst was in February, when Smith was given a pair of talk show in Lincoln, but wounded in Chicago O'Hare International Airport for 12 hours. "The shortweekends, when it looks like you’re going to miss the main event, you wonder whether you should even continue the trip or just go back to D.C.,” he said.

Because of his traveling travails, Smith has become both an admirer of Capitol Hill schedulers, whom he’s come to regard as “artists” and a proponent of the federally funded expansion of America’s second-busiest airport. “First opportunity I have to help expansion of O’Hare, I want to do it,” he said. “I think it’s a national problem. "

And a Nebraska issue, as well.

Senator Ted Stevens (R-Alaska)

Perhaps there was no better place to be in Alaska, March 27, 1964, and in the air. This is where Senator Ted Stevens, when the state was rocked by powerful earthquakes ever recorded in North America.

Stevens, who just started the campaign, was an Alaska Airlines flight from Anchorage to Fairbanks, where the earthquake struck. Later that evening, Stevens andcadre of doctors flew back to Anchorage on a chartered F-27. He says everyone was “really worried about landing.”

“When we approached the regular field, it was blown out,” Stevens said. “It was a hairy night.”

The plane was forced to touch down at Elmendorf Air Force Base. With the roads fissured by the quake, the passengers had to get into town by foot. Stevens made it home at 2:30 a.m., only to discover that the part of town where he lived had suffered serious damage in earthquake.

It was not the senator is concerned only aircraft-related. He had a hard landing on the mountain. McKinley in a plan for Bush in 1969, and recalled a trip to Hawaii on a military transport plane was to return to the airport because of mechanical complications.

Asked about some of the experiences that made him reluctant to fly, Senator harrumphs 85-year-old. "Oh, hell no," he said. "I flew during World War II. I have done with any type of wing danger. Iproblem with it. "

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Posted on April 21st, 2010 by admin
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