Last Thursday night, June 26th, Sen. Bill Nelson on the floor of the U.S.
Senate requested "unanimous consent" on S. 2766, the Clean Boating Act of
2008 (aka, EPA Permit Relief Bill) and it was about to pass, thus sparing 17
million Americans from the onerous, new EPA Regs when.one, lone Senator
objected. But that was all it took to stop the bill cold in its tracks on
its way to enactment. With just 18 congressional "working" days left before
the Sept. 30th deadline, Sen. Lisa Murkowski has chosen to try to advance
the interests of commercial fishing vessel owners above the interests of
51,000 Alaskan recreational boat owners - to say nothing of the 17 million
American boat owners in the other 49 states.

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Claus