The official also signaled that Republicans who oppose any federalization of airport security personnel are likely to be disappointed.

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John McCain, R-Arizona, Fritz Hollings, D-South Carolina, and Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, said they agree that federalization of workers would happen.

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But isn't the federalization of pretty much everything in a diverse country like the U.S. just another exercise in imperial overstretch?

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"From our side of the table, there was absolute unanimity on federalization, and we're going to write the law, " Rockefeller told CNN.

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Bush proposed, and Congress eventually disposed, with the federalization of science.

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Without this federalization, it will agree that countries in the Euro zone that are in trouble must work themselves out of it by traveling the long and unbearable road of austerity.

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