Boeing's congressional base began to fray amid growing global pressure for the U.S. to follow much of the world by grounding a Boeing plane involved in two deadly air disasters
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Rep. Rick Larsen , who chairs the subcommittee in charge of aviation in the House and represents a district that is home to a major Boeing facility, pointed out that the FAA has not called for the jets to be taken out of service.
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