[CPEO-MEF] Editorial - "Congress must take the lead in addressing ocean dumpsites"

[Lenny Siegel <lsiegel@cpeo.org>]

Deadliness below
Congress must take the lead in addressing ocean dumpsites

Editorial
Newport News Daily Press
May 14, 2006

One way to improve a proposal's prospects in Congress is to hitch it 
onto a bill that's bound to make it all the way through the legislative 
maze, and not languish or die at any of the steps along the way.

The ride-along strategy was a smart choice by Rep. Rob Andrews of New 
Jersey, who wants Congress to exert some leadership in finding out more 
about the danger posed by decades of ocean dumping of munitions.

Andrews chose the defense spending bill as a vehicle to require the 
Secretary of Defense to determine whether any human populations have 
been harmed by the dumping. It makes sense, because the bill authorizes 
spending for the Army, which is responsible for most of the dumping, and 
because he sits on the House committee that drafts the bill. Over on the 
Senate side, Virginia's Sen. John Warner, who chairs the Armed Services 
Committee and is also interested in the dumping issue, can help smooth 
the way for the proposal.

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For the entire editorial, see
http://www.dailypress.com/news/opinion/dp-24087sy0may14,0,7970014.story?coll=dp-opinion-editorials
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Lenny Siegel
Director, Center for Public Environmental Oversight
c/o PSC, 278-A Hope St., Mountain View, CA 94041
Voice: 650/961-8918 or 650/969-1545
Fax: 650/961-8918
<lsiegel@cpeo.org>
http://www.cpeo.org


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