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Asian-American selected to replace Daley in Clinton Cabinet

WASHINGTON (AP) -- President Clinton has chosen former Rep. Norman Mineta of California as commerce secretary, making him the first Asian-American Cabinet secretary, administration officials said Thursday...

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Census dispute could sink Medicare bill

WASHINGTON -- Commerce Secretary Norman Mineta will recommend that President Clinton veto a $28 billion Medicare bill on grounds a last-minute provision could threaten the...

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It's a 'Methodist moment' in Washington, caucus says

...Andrew Card (whose wife Kathleene is a Methodist minister), Commerce Secretary Don Evans, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta and Republican National Committee chairman (and Virginia Gov.) James Gilmore.

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Traffic fatalities rise slightly as motorcycle deaths increase

...populations. "These statistics underscore the challenges facing this country in highway safety," Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said in a statement. "Safety is an individual as well as government responsibility, and we must work together to...

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Cars
Mineta says higher peak travel prices could reduce delays

...Charging airline passengers or motorists more to travel at peak times could reduce congestion, Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told a congressional committee Wednesday. Mineta, testifying before the House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee...

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Republicans move toward increasing fuel efficiency requirements for SUVs

...increase in 25 years in the federal corporate automobile fuel economy, or CAFE, standard. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta asked Congress to lift immediately a six-year prohibition that bans the department from consideration of fuel economy...

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Attacks update

...General John Ashcroft says authorities have arrested or detained more than 480 people. -- Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta says Reagan National Airport near Washington will reopen under new security measures. It is nation's only commercial...

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Bush, advisers face rhetorical balancing act

...administration officials won't say -- to whether Reagan National Airport would be reopened, as Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta said last week, only to be contradicted hours later by White House press secretary Ari Fleischer. White House communications...

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Israelize our airline security

...airline passengers are targeted by a passenger with plastic explosives hidden in his shoes. Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta says he opposes profiling because as a young boy he spent time in a Japanese internment camp during World War II...

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Opinion
Bush homeland security plan wins first round

...airports have said they cannot realistically install the technology by year's end, but Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta told Armey's committee on Tuesday that he believed the deadline could be met. The White House hadn't asked Armey's...

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