Vitter bill would allow loggers onto our wetlands......surprised?

[AnnInLa]

Just got the following email:

The legislation (S.728) should come up for debate and
a vote sometime in the next several weeks, i.e.,
sometime in the current session of Congress. The
committee that considered the legislation before it
was sent to the floor gave Vitter's amendment a
general thumbs down, but it is inserted into popular
coastal restoration legislation, and may still pass on
the Senate floor. Action is required to prevent
passage of Vitter's provision.

Pressure should be applied to Senators to make sure
the Vitter provision does not survive passage of
S.728.

Sen. David Vitter (R-LA) introduced language into
coastal restoration legislation (S.728) that would
allow logging companies to develop valuable wetland
habitat and cut down precious cypress trees at will.
The Water Resources Development Act of 2005 moved out
of committee and is on the calendar for a vote of the
full Senate.

Text of the provision and more can be found here:

http://peoplegetready.blogspot.com/2005/05/update-on-vitter-provision-that-will.html

[shoelace414]

1. It's the war on trees!

[wakeme2008]

2. What can I say, another repug group (hunters) meets the REAL repug

party.

[Acadia Blue]

3. Not at all. He is a liar and a neo-con and supports money over

anything else. He and Jindal are the worse things we have had in public office