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Thursday, July 09, 2009

Carry-On Baggage Next on Illinois Rep's Agenda

Posted by: Meredith Jessup at 3:40 PM

Three-term U.S. Congressman Dan Lipinski (D-Ill.) this month introduced a bill that would impose a federal limit on the size of baggage allowed to be carried by passengers boarding aircraft. It sounds like while jet-setting to and from the nation's capital, the Congressman has been somewhat inconvenienced in the past: "The passengers who board the plane last often don't have any place to stow their carry-ons because the people who got on first fill the overhead bins with oversize roll-on bags," Lipinski said.

Instead of arriving for flights earlier to secure overhead space, let's introduce some legislation! While we're on the subject, can we ban carry-on luggage from being stowed beneath seats? Air travelers should have a right to overhead compartment space and adequate leg room!

If you're interested, get out your tape measure and read the full story to see if Rep. Lipinski would deem your carry-on acceptable.

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Marty writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 7:39 PM
Lipinski shoud borrow a page
out of Joe Biden's book and hop on Amtrak. The airlines have strict weight limits and size limits for carry on luggage.
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The Plumber writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 7:21 PM
Cicero
Can't blame them. There are so many problems that we unwashed, joe six-packs, either don't care about, or view as somebody else's problem. All of us stupid rubes NEED the enlightened counsel of our elitist rulers.
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Dottie writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 7:19 PM
Good Golly
Oh that party that champions the poor who can't even afford airline tickets.........
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Cicero writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 5:51 PM
Don't you know, Meredith?
Liberals will fix everything. Glory be to the liberals. "Liberals . . . speak freely of 'ideals,' imagined perfections that we can achieve if only we have the will. 'I have a dream,' as Martin Luther King said. Hence liberals typically talk of abolishing evils — 'eliminating poverty,' 'eradicating racism,' 'doing away with prejudice,' 'ending exploitation,' and so forth. This usually means strenuous government action, massive coercion and bureaucracy, because these things don’t just evaporate of themselves. . . . "One word is notably absent from the liberal vocabulary: enough. For the liberal, there is hardly such a thing as “too much” government. There is no point at which liberals say, “Well, we’ve done it. We’ve realized our dreams. We have all the government we need, and we should stop now.” No, they always want more government. There is no such thing as enough government." (Joseph Sobran)
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Dread writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 4:19 PM
How about...
we start adjusting airline fares by the pound? Make everyone stand with their luggage on a nice big scale and charge them accordingly? I'm sure that would go down in flames pretty fast with all of those vain, bloated sacks of fat that reside on capitol hill.
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vonryansexpress writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 4:12 PM
Another Blagojavich hand-you down
Lipinski got his seat from his Congressman dad's baton pass in an irregular hoodwink of the primary process. He worked for Blago and hails from academia. There is nothing in his life or his political life that would assert that this is a best of breed legislator. Just another child of the Chicago gutter privilege trying to impose a stricture when his entire life has been a free ride with ample baggage.
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Big Sky Cowboy writes:	Thursday, July, 09, 2009 4:00 PM
Illinois
Another horses asssss democrate from the land of Lincoln.
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