[ga] Senator holds up Commerce nominee over fisheries earmark
All former DNSO GA members or other interested stakeholders/users,
See: http://www.govexec.com/dailyfed/1203/121903cdpm2.htm
Excerpts:
"In one of the stranger episodes of the fiscal 2004 appropriations
season, a $2.5 million fisheries earmark in the pending omnibus
spending bill is caught in a nasty political spat that has temporarily
derailed the Bush administration nominee for the Commerce Department's
top telecommunications slot.
Earlier this year, Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison, R-Texas, who serves on
the Commerce-Justice-State Appropriations Subcommittee, secured
$2.5 million for "Atlantic billfish research" at the behest of the
Oceanic Conservation Organization, a Brownsville, Texas-based
nonprofit group. The group wants to partner with Texas universities
to study ways toconserve depleted Atlantic billfish, mostly white
marlin, favored by recreational anglers.
While the billfish species also includes swordfish and sailfish, bill
advocates say marlin have suffered from overfishing in part by foreign
commercial vessels."
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