Long Distance at La Guardia
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New Yorkers trying to snag cheap airfares for their summer vacations can ponder a legislative oddity as they chat with their travel agents: Three Western senators care more about lowering prices for Big Apple travelers than do Senators Schumer and Clinton. Senators McCain and Kyl of Arizona and Senator Ensign of Nevada are co-sponsoring the Abolishing Aviation Barriers Act of 2005, which would lift so-called perimeter rules at New York’s La Guardia and Washington’s Ronald Reagan National airports. Our senators are like lost luggage, mysteriously missing.
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