Jim Talent Failed to Fight For 1,850 Missouri Boeing Jobs

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im Talent Failed to Fight For 1,850 Missouri Boeing Jobs

Friday, August 18, 2006

Jefferson City, MO --- Sen. Jim Talent’s failure to fight for Missouri jobs in the U.S. Senate hit home today as it was announced that 1,850 Missouri Boeing jobs are in jeopardy after Congress eliminated the C-17 program.

Talent, who sits on the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee that has direct authority over the C-17 project, has failed to attend 65 of the committee’s 95 hearings — almost 70 percent — since he came to the Senate in 2003.<1>

Boeing is scheduled to stop production of the C-17 by 2008 because the Department of Defense did not budget for additional C-17s in fiscal years 2007, 2008 or 2009. Boeing officials told the Air Force that without additional orders, the company could not sustain C-17 production and that the Boeing plant in St. Louis would be among the first to see job cuts.

“As Jim Talent repeatedly says he is afraid Missouri will lose jobs if the minimum wage is increased, he has let nearly 2,000 skilled jobs slip out from under his nose, while simultaneously depriving our soldiers in Afghanistan and Iraq of one of their most important tools to fight the war on terror,” said Jack Cardetti, the Missouri Democratic Party spokesman.


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