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nents and opponents are searching for other opportunities to enact this bill into law this year.

AWO and AWSC are concerned that granting a waiver to allow these two ships to enter the Jones

Act trade will establish a prece- dent. Furthermore, it would pro- vide a tremendous competitive ad- vantage to the owners of these two ships, to the detriment of other parties interested in development of a U.S. built vessel industry.

Oil Spill Liability Fund

AWO has long been on record in support of establishment of an oil spill liability compensation and cleanup fund, providing that it pre-empted other federal, state and local requirements contained in the Act, and would not increase vessel limits of liability to unrea- sonable and uninsurable amounts.

After one year of opposition to such legislation, Secretary of

Transportation Elizabeth Dole an- nounced that the Administration now supported oil spill legislation contingent on several revisions to the bill, H.R. 3278, approved last year by the House Merchant Ma- rine and Fisheries Committee. The

Administration would raise limits of liability for all vessels to $1,000 per gross ton—an almost tenfold increase in the committee-ap- proved level for inland oil barges, and more than twice that which the committee recommended for other vessels. AWO opposes these limits.

Because so few legislative days remain in this session of Congress, it is unlikely that there will be ad- ditional action in this area. How- ever, as it has been throughout previous Congresses, passage of oil spill liability legislation will be a

House Merchant Marine and Fish- eries Committee priority.

Tipping Over

The Pork Barrel

Jeffrey A. Smith,

Director of Public Affairs

The term "pork barrel" has been part of the American political lex- icon for years. William Safire's

Jeffrey A. Smith

American Political Dictionary defines it as "A piece of legislation that provides morsels for scores of

Congressmen in the form of appro- priations for dams and piers, high- ways and bridges." The phrase probably dates from the pre-Civil

War practice of distributing salt pork to slaves from large barrels.

Members of Congress, in their stampede for local appropriations, were likened by the pundits of the day to the field workers rushing the barrel to get their share of the pork. In a Baltimore speech on in- flation in 1952, Adlai Stevenson pledged "no pork-barreling while our economy is in its present condition."

The old phrase is still with us today, and during recent House debate on the first major water re- sources construction bill in four- teen years, opponents of the meas- ure were standing in the Well of the House invoking "pork barrel politics!" as a catch-all damnation of the bill. However, after two years of careful planning, compre- hensive hearings, and debate, the

House passed the omnibus bill that authorizes the repair and re- placement of seven critical locks and dams around the nation. The bill also provides for the develop- (continued on page 26)

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