Six New England senators’ efforts to affix a $156.4 million rescue plan for the groundfish industry to the near $900 billion economic stimulus and recovery plan in the U.S. Senate apparently failed some time ago.
An aide to Senator Kennedy told the Gloucester Daily Times "the request was not accepted into the recovery package." She declined to describe the circumstances that brought about the demise of the effort, except to say that "nothing out of the ordinary has occurred. Read the complete story>