How to do that logistically would not have been as easy as it sounds, because you're shuttling back and forth between the House, the Senate, different offices, et cetera, different legislators.

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Some of them aren't going to have that capacity, but maybe they can act as sentinels to spot oil, or maybe some of them are just shuttling supplies back and forth to these ships.

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No doubt many more Americans were employed in shuttling Americans like Kennedy back and forth from Hollywood way back when, but far from an economic positive, this waste of labor was an economic weight thankfully erased eventually by airplanes.

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