PRINCETON: Rep. Holt re-files battlefield, anthrax bills

[EFerrari]

PRINCETON: Rep. Holt re-files battlefield, anthrax bills
Thursday, March 5, 2009 6:45 PM EST
By Lauren Otis, Staff Writer


U.S. Rep. Rush Holt has reintroduced legislation to establish a commission to investigate the 2001 anthrax attacks as well as a bill that would preserve Revolutionary War and War of 1812 battlefields.

Many significant Revolutionary War and War of 1812 sites are in danger of being destroyed, including sites in Princeton and Trenton, according to a release from Rep. Holt’s office. The battlefield protection act passed the House last session, but was not acted on by the U.S. Senate. It would set aside funding for the preservation of sites as is done for Civil War sites.

”I think the battlefield legislation will pass the Senate,” Rep. Holt said, explaining it was introduced earlier in the session, and there will be more time to get to it.

”The Anthrax Commission legislation is a taller order,” Rep. Holt said.

http://www.centraljersey.com/articles/2009/03/14/the_princeton_packet/news/doc49b06118b9a8e715837042.txt

What is Rush Holt up to? :shrug:

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

1. Hopefully the truth in the anthrax matter

and a hold on rampant and ill-thought-out development when it comes to battlefields.

[EFerrari]

2. I've always like him but I don't know enough about him to read him

so I was hoping better informed posters would weigh in. :)

[Muttocracy]

3. sounds good to me. nt

[defendandprotect]

4. All for investigating the anthrax attacks --- keep Hamilton far away ....!!!

Yes . . . obviously, having pulled off 9/11, Bush was anxious to keep any info

or any investigation from Congress' hands -- and shut down Congress for months

with Anthrax!


Re "battlefield" -- I'm not much on burials -- in fact, every time I pass some huge

cemetery, I think it's land the homeless could live on! Also, remember a decade or

more back with FLOODS the coffins were bobbing up from the cemeteries and floating

down the streets!

I'm sure I'd like to at least see the battlefields CLOSED and refusing any new war

victims in the sense that it would be a demand that all WAR would be stopped!!!