please insert NOT after MVPA and NRA website. Sorry.
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From: "Richard Lathrop" <lathrrs@snip.net>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 13:07:44 -0500
>Not to start a flame war but the MV list was one of the first diseminators of information and a lot of people on the list put hard time and effort in to notifying thier Congressional representatives on this issue. I don't see them mentioned.
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>Also the MVPA website or the NRA site was to helpful of keeping track of this issue. It was more the warbird folks then anyone else who kept us up to date.
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>Might want to remember that when time comes for starting to slap each other on the back.
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>From: kurt.lesser@vsea.com
>Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2001 09:20:00 -0800
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>>Senate Bills and section 1062
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>>>From MVPA headquarters:
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>>Allan Cors has been keeping us updated, but no new info. The vote keeps
>>being delayed (for reasons unrelated to the bill) the last we have heard
>>was a planned vote today (Tuesday 11/6). Allan still feel confident that
>>the vote will go in our favor. The following is an advance look at an
>>article for the January 2002 Supply Line, we hope to add the results of
>>the vote before we go to print at the end of this week.
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>>The MVPA Board of Directors deserve a salute!
>> In 2000 and 2001, you have been the leaders in the efforts to
>>defeat legislation requiring the demilitarization of a broad array of
>>military vehicles, as well as any radios, aircraft, boats/ships,
>>firearms and ammunition formerly owned by the Department Of Defense.
>> The 2000 Fight: In early August, MVPA President, Lee Holland
>>notified me of the D.O.D. proposed legislation put into the U.S. House
>>version of the Defense Authorization bill. Acting as your
>>representative, we organized a team and worked for the rejection of the
>>proposal. Although lobbying has been my profession since 1967, I felt we
>>needed additional top-level manpower to win the fight......and you
>>immediately provided the funding to hire a former member of Congress to
>>be a part of our "educational" effort. By early September, the House
>>Armed Services Committee agreed to withdraw the proposal.
>> The 2001 Fight: The D.O.D.'s package of legislative proposals for
>>2001 came to the Congress early this year with the same proposal as the
>>one submitted by the Clinton Administration in 2000. Acting for the
>>MVPA, I tracked the issue throughout the summer. While the House and
>>Senate staff assured me the idea was not going to be considered, it was,
>>in fact, put into the Senate's version of the Defense Authorization bill
>>on September 6, in the final hours before the bill was reported out of
>>the Senate Armed Services Committee. It was, apparently, approved on a
>>party line vote with the Democratic majority voting in favor and the
>>Republicans against.
>> We, once again, went to work to defeat this issue, and the MVPA
>>immediately gave me the financial backing to add two top-level people to
>>the team. We alerted others who expanded our coalition to cover the
>>interests of collectors and museums of firearms and aircraft.....but the
>>MVPA was there first, and with strong resources.
>> When the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee wants a
>>provision in the D.O.D. Authorization bill, it is very difficult to
>>challenge that kind of authority. However, while I feel reasonably
>>confident our position will prevail on the issue, all who are concerned
>>about the matter should join me in saluting the National Rifle
>>Association, a number of military aircraft owners, organizations and,
>>most especially, the MVPA for the tremendous effort that has been made
>>to protect our interests.
>> Your responsive leadership has well represented the interests of
>>the MVPA membership.
>> Allan D. Cors, MVPA # 5561
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