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The casket containing the remains of former Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., is carried into Our Lady of Mercy Catholic Church for a Mass of Christian Burial, in Potomac, Md., Thursday, May 8, 2014. Oberstar served in the United States House of Representatives from 1975 to 2011 and died in his sleep at home in Potomac, Md., on May, 3, 2014. He was 79-years old. (AP Photo/Cliff Owen)

Hundreds mourn longtime Minnesota Rep. Oberstar

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FILE - In a Wednesday, July 14, 2010 file photo, Rep. Jim Oberstar, D-Minn., questions witnesses during a hearing at the Transportation and Infrastructure Subcommittee on Aviation hearing on airline fees on Capitol Hill. Former U.S. Rep. Jim Oberstar, who served northeastern Minnesota for 36 years, died in his sleep Saturday, May 3, 2014, according to a statement from his family. He was 79. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak, File)

Longtime Minnesota congressman Oberstar dies at 79

By Amy Forliti - Associated Press

Minnesota news in brief at 7:58 p.m. CDT

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Former Sen. Rod Grams, Minnesota Republican, speaks with a reporter before a meeting with citizens at Freddies Family Restaurant in Mora, Minn., in 2006. Mr. Grams, a former Twin Cities news anchorman who went on to serve one Senate term, died on Tuesday, Oct. 8, 2013, at age 65. He had been diagnosed with cancer in April 2012. (AP Photo/Jim Mone)

Former Sen. Rod Grams dies at 65

By Patrick Condon - Associated Press

In this photo taken June 16, 2010, John Kausner of Clarence Center, N.Y., left, who's 24-year-old daughter Ellyce died in the crash of Continental Connection Flight 3407 in Feb. 2009, talks to Jeffrey Smisek, right, Continental Airlines President and CEO, to request his support for new airline safety provisions outside a congressional committee hearing on Capitol Hill in Washington. Congress is on the verge of passing far-reaching airline safety legislation, and a lot of the credit goes to the families and friends of the 50 people died in the Flight 3407 crash more than a year ago. (AP Photo/Haraz N. Ghanbari)

Congress ready to pass aviation safety measures

By Joan Lowy - Associated Press

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