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The San Diego Union-Tribune
June 20, 2002, Thursday
SECTION: NEWS;Pg. A-7

LENGTH: 75 words

HEADLINE: House panel backs arming of pilots

BYLINE: Associated Press

BODY:
WASHINGTON -- Lawmakers moved closer to a confrontation with the Bush administration over guns in airplane cockpits as a House panel endorsed legislation that could arm more than 1,000 pilots in the next two years.

The House Transportation Committee's aviation subcommittee vote yesterday runs counter to the administration's decision last month not to allow the arming of pilots. Similar legislation also has been introduced in the Senate.



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