GLOUCESTER, MA (February 04, 2009) – Six New England senators’ effort 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 behind an opaque curtain.
In its brief presence on the scene, the recovery plan attained the status of a zombie — that of the living dead.
Even as representatives of a sponsor, Sen. John Kerry, focused on a "legislative solution" this week to the fishery’s crippling woes and a leading industry group continued working feverishly to shore up support for the package it authored, from the office of the lead sponsor, Sen. Edward M. Kennedy, came word that the effort had collapsed "weeks ago."
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