7/8 Senate Hearing: Threats to Native Wildlife

Here's a link to a Senate page that has video feed of today's senate hearing:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.c...ity.AudioVideo

Scroll down to the archived webcasts and there's a link to today's hearing. Senator Nelson went on at great length warning us all about Burmese pythons.

Joe Hiduke

Ok so I don't have 2 hours to sit through it right now. What happened?

Quote:

---

Originally Posted by sg1trogdor

Ok so I don't have 2 hours to sit through it right now. What happened?

---

me either...what happened lol

Adam has a summary posted at nohr669, it's a better recap than I can give since I was listening at work. Senator Inhofe's did make some comments to the effect that any legislation has to take into account the impact it will have on the pet trade, sports fishing, etc, which was encouraging. A whole lot of bat disease and zebra muscle discussion, plus Senator Nelson's anti-python pitch. If you don't have time to watch the whole thing you could just watch his time.

Joe Hiduke

Also, Nelson picked up a cosponsor yesterday, Senator Carl Levin (Democrat, Michigan).

Here's the link to Senator Inhofe's opening statement:

http://epw.senate.gov/public/index.c..._id=&Issue_id=

Awesome, Sen Inhofe is cool by me.