November 22, 2004
11/22 - Bush to USCOP: Great recommendations! Where's the trash can?
Here's an excerpt from an article assessing the odds that President Bush will act on the more than 200 recommendations of the U.S. Commission on Ocean Policy.
"The response is tentatively scheduled to be unveiled on Dec. 20, but commission members and oceans experts who have been closely following the interagency effort said it appears the White House will not propose the key reforms or seek the significant increases in funding recommended by the commission.
Instead, the White House appears to be leaning toward "giving us a menu of all the wonderful things they are doing right now and saying they believe they can handle it within the current (government) structure and so forth," said retired Adm. James Watkins, a former secretary of Energy who chaired the oceans commission."
Deposit ocean recommendations here.