I said "earlier", that is, their names immediately before this bill passed, not "original".
The airport was named after the country's first president until 1998, when Republicans in Congress forced it to change its name against the wishes of the Metropolitan Washington Airports Authority and the people of D.C. and NoVA.
You see that little red county at the top there? Arlington County? Yeah, that's where the airport is located.
And while we're at it:
https://uselectionatlas.org/RESULTS/index.htmlPresident Washington > President Reagan x 100.
FWIW, I would've preferred the amendment to name them after Nym and Wixted. That said, yes it was a bit of political hackery, in response to original political hackery by renaming the airport to begin with. Our Senate is part of an online political sim entitled to some silliness in government. What was the US Congress's excuse in 1998?
