Age 60 and the new Home Land Security Bill?

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Immunity for Big Business but No Jobs for Airline Pilots Without the Big Retirement

Hello Flying Guy,

Immunity for big business was left in there but the lobbyists made sure that Senator Murkowski's Amendment was removed.......

Too many of them and too few of us.


It's Rumor Control Friday. Gene Harmer wants to know where the
Age 60 debate is in the new political arena. Gene, we just learned
that a controversial amendment introduced by Alaska Senator Frank
Murkowski to raise the retirement age for pilots has been removed
from the Homeland Security Bill. House leaders refused to include
the measure in a revised version of the bill now headed to the
Senate. Senator Murkowski, who is leaving the Senate to become
Governor of Alaska, attached the amendment to the original Homeland
Security Bill in the Senate. CAPA Executive Director Mike Cronin
has been following the bill...

{CRONIN There was some movement earlier this year to introduce
legislation changing the age 60 rule and because of the way the
Homeland Security Act was structured and the way it passed all
of the movement to attach an age 60 rider to the bill was rejected
by the House leadership so that did not make it into the legislation.


{ERIC The Senate will tackle the compromise Homeland Security
Bill next week and Washington lobbyist Susan Williams tells IPNN
it is unlikely the Senate would try to reattach such a controversial
amendment. We can tell you that Republican Senator John McCain,
who will chair the Senate Commerce, Science and Transportatio
Committee supports raising the pilot retirement age to 63, so
that issue could emerge during the next session. We'll of course
keep you posted.