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From @lex-luthor.ai.mit.edu:jcma@REAGAN.AI.MIT.EDU Thu Apr 29 21:21:51 1993
Date: Thu, 29 Apr 1993 19:31-0400
From: The White House <75300.3115@compuserve.com>
Subject: Members of Airline Commission named 4.29.93
To: Clinton-News-Distribution@campaign92.org
THE WHITE HOUSE
Office of the Press Secretary
For Immediate Release April 29, 1993
MEMBERS OF AIRLINE COMMISSION NAMED
(Washington, DC) The President announced today the membership
of the National Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline
Industry, which will be chaired by former Virginia Governor
Gerald Baliles, who the President has appointed after
consultation with the Congressional leadership.
President Clinton first proposed that this commission be
formed after a meeting with airline executives in Everett,
Washington on February 22. A bill was then introduced and passed
by Congress, and was signed by the President on April 7.
The bill calls for a Commission of 15 voting members, 5
appointed by the President, 3 by the Speaker of the House, 3 by
the Senate Majority Leader, and 2 each by the Minority Leaders of
the House and Senate. In addition, the commission has 11
nonvoting members, of whom 1 is appointed by the President, 3
each by the Speaker of the House and the Senate Majority Leader,
and 2 each by the Minority Leaders of the House and Senate.
The members of the Commission appointed by the President
are:
Gerald L. Baliles, Chair, Partner, Hunton & Williams/Former
Governor of Virginia, Richmond, VA
Bette B. Anderson, President, Kelly, Anderson and Associates,
Inc., Washingon, DC
Sylvia A. de Leon, Partner, Akin, Gump, Strauss, Hauer and Feld,
Washington, DC
Herbert D. Kelleher, Chief Executive Officer, Southwest Airlines,
Dallas, TX
Gina F. Thomas, Managing Attorney for International and
Regulatory Affairs, Federal Express Corporation, Memphis, TN
(more)
Commission to Ensure a Strong Competitive Airline Industry
page two
The members appointed by the Senate are:
Charles "Chip" M. Barclay, President, the American Association of
Airport Executives, Washington, DC
Robert F. Daniell, Chief Executive Officer, United Technologies,
West Hartford, CT
Felix G. Rohatyn, Managing Partner, Lazard Freres and Company,
New York, NY
Russell W. Meyer, Jr., Chairman and Chief Executive Officer,
Cessna Aircraft Company, Wichita, KS
Abraham D. Sofaer, Partner, Hughes, Hubbard, and Reed,
Washington, DC
The members appointed by the House are:
Captain J. Randolph Babbitt, President, Airline Pilots
Association (ALPA), Oakton, VA
John Peterpaul, Vice President, International Association of
Machinists (IAM), Silver Spring, MD
Sandra Pianalto, First Vice President, Federal Reserve Bank,
Cleveland, OH
John E. Robson, Lister Crown Distinguished Faculty Fellow, Yale
University, New Haven, CT
Daniel M. Kasper, Director of Transportation Practice, Harbridge
House, Inc., Boston, MA
The ex-officio (non-voting) members are:
Laura D'Andrea Tyson, Chair, President's Council of Economic
Advisors, California
Senator J. James Exon, Nebraska
Senator Ernest Hollings, South Carolina
Senator Patty Murray, Washington
Senator John Danforth, Missouri
Senator Slade Gorton, Washington
Representative Richard Gephardt, Missouri
Representative Robert Borski, Pennsylvania
Representative Maria Cantwell, Washington
Representative Newt Gingrich, Georgia
Representative Bud Shuster, Pennsylvania
A statement by the President is attached.
###
STATEMENT BY THE PRESIDENT ON THE NATIONAL COMMISSION
TO ENSURE A STRONG COMPETITIVE AIRLINE INDUSTRY
Today, I am, in conjunction with the bipartisan
Congressional leadership, releasing the names of the members of
the National Commission to Ensure a Strong and Competitive
Airline Industry.
This commission will enable us to start planning the
revitalization of one of our country's most important industries,
one of our most important exporters, one of our nation's most
important employers: the aircraft manufacturers and carriers
that have been the pride of the United States and the world's
leaders since the beginning of aviation. I pledge that this
Commission will have the full resources of every agency of the
Federal government at its disposal.
Each of the individuals on this Commission brings a strong
record of accomplishment in his or her field, together with a
keen sense of the importance of aviation in a global economy.
Each of them has demonstrated the ability to look toward the
future and the energy and intellect to shape the course of the
current airline debate.
I would like to thank the bipartisan Congressional
leadership for their support and leadership in creating this
commission and in selecting persons of such high calibre.
The Chairman of the Commission will be an old friend and
former colleague of mine, former Virginia Governor Gerald L.
Baliles. Perhaps no other Governor in the past decade devoted
more thought and attention to the global nature of the challenges
facing his state. Governor Baliles always recognized that the
nature of competition had changed fundamentally, and that any
strategy to shape that change must be rooted in a vision
extending beyond our borders. He recognized that aviation is the
lifeblood of commerce in a global economy, and made it an
important part of his state's competitiveness strategy. That is
what we must do now at a national level.
As the legislation creating this commission was debated in
Congress, it became clear that there are many different
explinations of why our airline carriers and manufacturers are
facing such financial difficulty. And those issues will be
debated. But it will be valuable for the Commission to take a
step back from that debate and examine the context in which the
aviation industry operates. To the extent the Commission can
help us understand how we got to where we are today, and provide
a vision for a competitive future, it will have rendered an
invaluable service. I look forward to receiving their report and
pledge the full cooperation of my entire administration in their
work.
###