Earlier this year @CRS4Congress released a report about the Jones Act (everycrsreport.com/files/20190517…) that amounted to a searing indictment of the law. Now the Jones Act lobby is using their Hill attack dogs to have it removed from circulation: maritime-executive.com/editorials/op-… 
@CRS4Congress It's pretty easy to understand why. If I were part of the JA lobby I wouldn't want people to know about the high cost of U.S. commercial shipbuilding either (note the extensive footnoting):
#EndTheJonesAct
#EndTheJonesAct
@CRS4Congress I wouldn't want people to know that U.S. shipyards themselves have argued that the high cost of shipbuilding is detrimental to the U.S. fleet, one of the things the Jones Act is supposed to promote:
@CRS4Congress I wouldn't want people to know that the Jones Act results in more traffic on our roads:
#EndTheJonesAct
#EndTheJonesAct
@CRS4Congress I wouldn't want people to know that, due to the JA fleet's limited capabilities, the U.S. military had to rely on a foreign-flagged ship for the domestic transport of a radar system:
@CRS4Congress And I absolutely wouldn't want anyone to know about this:
@CRS4Congress Hi @RepSamGraves, @RepPeterDeFazio, @RepSeanMaloney, and @RepBobGibbs: will you please make public your letter to @CRS4Congress trying to remove reports critical (that is to say, accurate) about the Jones Act?
@CRS4Congress @RepSamGraves @RepPeterDeFazio @RepSeanMaloney @RepBobGibbs Nevermind, I have a copy of the letter. Here is the relevant section re: the Jones Act report. Note that they don't accuse the author of getting any facts wrong.
