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Promoting travel .... and the national anthem

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Report from Washington:

In the world’s greatest deliberative body on June 18, Sen. Ben Cardin (D-Md.) sought to amend the Travel Promotion Act by adding thereto a proposed “STAR-SPANGLED BANNER AND WAR OF 1812 BICENTENNIAL COMMISSION ACT,” which has something to do with the fact that Francis Scott Key wrote "The Star-Spangled Banner" in Baltimore, which is in Maryland, which elected Cardin to the world’s greatest deliberative body, which didn’t pass the Travel Promotion Act on June 18.

Addendum: Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) submitted an amendment titled “Automobile Dealer Economic Rights Restoration.”

Ends this report.

Posted by Rebecca Tobin at 6/19/2009 3:25 PM Comments (1)

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