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StarTribune.comThe influential Minnesota congressman doesn't like the NWA-Delta deal. Though there's little Congress can do to stop it, that doesn't mean he won't try.
By KEVIN DIAZ,
WASHINGTON - The man who will be leading the charge in Congress against the world's biggest airline merger is a flinty miner's son from Minnesota's Iron Range.
Jim Oberstar, the chairman of the House Transportation Committee, brings four decades in Washington and a lifetime of hard-knuckled labor politics to his post. And in the proposed Delta-Northwest Airlines merger, which could cost jobs and competition in Minnesota, he doesn't like what he sees.
The 73-year-old native of Chisholm acknowledges that there's little Congress can legally do to block the deal.
But he has a track record of making things painful for the airline industry when it falls short of his standards of safety and fairness.
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