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| Aug 27 2007, 10:34 AM EDT (current) | jimglab | 143 words added |
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Bush’s FAA chief will leave her post
What do top government officials do when they resign their posts? They become lobbyists. Thus it should come as no surprise that Marion Blakey, named by President Bush in 2002 to head the Federal Aviation Administration, will quit to become chief executive of the Aerospace Industries Association, a trade group that represents leading manufacturers and government contractors like Lockheed Martin, Boeing, General Dynamics and Raytheon. Before she joined the FAA, Blakey was head of the National Transportation Safety Board. The White Hose has not yet settled on a replacement for Blakey at the FAA. She leaves at a time when the agency is pushing Congress to provide funding for a new generation of satellite-based air traffic control technology, which the FAA says would go a long way to easing the growing congestion in the nation’s skies.
