One Bill for Vic Snyder: Honoring the SS Sultana
If you were elected to Congress and you were told you had the opportunity to introduce one bill — just one bill — what bill would you introduce? What change would you try to bring about to improve America? Would you promote legislation to reform the health care system? Would you change the system of campaign finance? Reform surveillance laws? Perhaps you’d alter the system of taxation or address environmental regulation in some way. There are many issues to choose between, that’s for sure. It might be hard to pick just one bill if that were the limit imposed upon you.
Representative Vic Snyder of Arkansas has been elected to the U.S. Congress, and he has no such limit placed upon him. Nevertheless, he has chosen to submit only one bill to the House of Representatives in the 111th Congress. What’s Vic Snyder’s choice for a bill?
H.Res. 329: a bill to commemorate the 144th anniversary of the sinking of the S.S. Sultana, a steamboat that sunk in the Mississippi River in the year 1865.
Given all the problems facing this country, all the mismanagement and economic struggle and military intervention and environmental threat, this is what Vic Snyder chooses to do with his time. Vic Snyder will not rest until his colleagues in the House and the nation’s journalists are made aware of this 19th Century boating incident, and the existence of not one but two books on the subject. Congressman Snyder would like us all to know that Disaster on the Mississippi by Gene Eric Salecker and The Sultana Tragedy by Jerry O. Potter are available right now, today, on Amazon.com.
Give Rep. Snyder’s office a call at (501)324-5941 and let him know how much you appreciate his great legislative efforts. Thank you, Vic Snyder! Thank you!
[...] He has introduced just one piece of legislation to the 111th Congress: a bill to commemorate the sinking of a boat on the Mississippi River back in 1865. That’s it in terms of [...]