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WASHINGTON - President Bush's defense blueprint calls for eliminating an aircraft carrier, and that's making life difficult for his brother Jeb, governor of Florida, where the USS John F. Kennedy is based.
Florida has been thrust into a high-stakes, highly political budget fight that also involves Virginia, home of a major Navy port at Norfolk, and its two senators, John Warner, chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, and George Allen, up for re- election in 2006.See the full content of this document
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Carrier Cut Brings Jeb to Capitol
While the budget doesn't say which carrier could be scrapped, the Jacksonville, Fla.-based ship is a likely candidate because it's the Navy's third-oldest carrier and one of onl...
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