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In this April 7, 2009 file photo, former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens stands with his daughters, from left, Beth Stevens, Lily Stevens and Susan Covich as he leaves federal court in Washington. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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This image provided by the Alaska State Troopers shows the wreckage of the amphibious plane carrying former Sen. Ted Stevens and former NASA chief Sean O'Keefe that crashed into a remote Alaska mountainside during a fishing trip, killing Mr. Stevens and four others and stranding the survivors on a rocky, brush-covered slope overnight. The plane hit the ground with so much force that it left a 300-foot gash on the slope, federal investigators said. (AP Photo/Alaska State Troopers)
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Russian Prime Minister Vladimir Putin sits in the cockpit of an Emergency Ministry Beriev Be-200 amphibian multirole jet flying a water drop over forest fires in Russia's Ryazan region, some 111 miles southeast of Moscow, on Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/RIA Novosti, Alexei Nikolsky, Pool)
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Sen. Ted Stevens, Alaska Republican, talks to supporters in 2008 at a rally welcoming him home. Stevens, a senator from 1968 to 2009, died in a plane crash outside Dillingham, Alaska, on Monday at the age of 86. (Associated Press)
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In this Jan. 25, 1984 file photo, President Ronald Reagan is flanked by Congressional leaders during a meeting in the Cabinet Room of the White House in Washington. From left are, House Speaker Thomas P. O'Neill; Chief of Staff James Baker, partly obscured; Attorney General Nominee Edwin Meese; President Reagan; Majority Leader Howard Baker; and Majority Whip Ted Stevens of Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Barry Thumma, File)
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In this undated photo, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, left, and President Jimmy Carter discuss the Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, File)
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In this 1973 photo, President Gerald Ford stands beside Ted Stevens at Stevens' 50th birthday in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News)
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In this Dec. 1978 photo, authorities examine the wreckage of a plane crash at Anchorage International Airport that killed Sen. Ted Stevens' first wife, Ann. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/The Anchorage Daily News, File)
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This April 29, 2005 photo released by John Olafson, shows an aircraft with tail number N455A, leaving Vernon, British Columbia, Canada and headed to Alaska. The National Transportation Safety Board reports that at about 8:00 p.m. Alaska Daylight Time on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010, a DeHavilland DHC-3T with tail number N455A crashed 10 miles northwest of Aleknagik, Alaska. (AP Photo/John Olafson)
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In this April 7, 2009 file photo, former Alaska Sen. Ted Stevens stands with his daughters, from left, Beth Stevens, Lily Stevens and Susan Covich as he leaves federal court in Washington. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Susan Walsh, File)
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In this Oct. 30, 2008 file photo, U.S. Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska , right, answers a question from Democrat candidate Anchorage Mayor Mark Begich during a congressional debate in Anchorage, Alaska. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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In this Oct. 29, 2008 file photo, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, tells supporters, during a rally to welcome the Alaska senator home in Anchorage, Alaska, he's innocent of the charges brought against him and vowing he will be vindicated. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Al Grillo, File)
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In this July 30, 2007 file photo, Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, walks through the U.S. Capitol after a vote on Capitol Hill in Washington. Stevens, an uncompromising advocate for Alaska for four decades who delivered scores of expensive projects to one of the nation's most sparsely populated states, died in a plane crash on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010 at the age of 86. Family spokesman Mitch Rose says Stevens was among the victims of a crash outside Dillingham, Alaska about 325 miles southwest of Anchorage. (AP Photo/Lauren Victoria Burke, File)
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Debris is scattered near the scene of the crash of a tour bus carrying Japanese sightseers from Las Vegas to a national park in Utah near Cedar City, Utah, on Monday, Aug. 9, 2010. (AP Photo/Utah Highway Patrol)
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In this photo provided by China's Xinhua News Agency, Liu Ma Shindan is transported by rescuers in mudslide-hit Zhouqu County, Gannan Tibetan Autonomous Prefecture in northwest China's Gansu Province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Liu Ma Shindan, 52, was rescued after being trapped for more than 50 hours following landslide, Xinhua reported. (AP Photo/Xinhua, Zhang Hongxiang)
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Rescue workers and residents search for victims after a mud slide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A rescue worker yawns as he stands with a colleague amongst the remains of a collapsed building after a mudslide swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A Chinese man uses his shirt to cover from the stench as others carry a corpse across the rock and debris left by Sunday's mud slide that swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled to reach survivors from flooding that has afflicted millions of people. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
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A Chinese man grieves over his loss while being comforted by others after a mudslide swept into the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in a remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo)
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Chinese rescue workers prepare to search for survivors after a mudslide swept through the town of Zhouqu in Gannan prefecture of northwestern China's Gansu province, Tuesday, Aug. 10, 2010. Rescuers in three countries across Asia struggled Tuesday to reach survivors from massive flooding that has afflicted millions of people, as the death toll climbed in the remote Chinese town where hundreds died and more than 1,100 were missing from landslides. (AP Photo/Ng Han Guan)
