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Efforts to obtain a Senate floor vote on HR 872, the “Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011” continue apace. As you are aware, Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), preventing a debate and a floor vote on the measure, has put this bipartisan piece of legislation on a procedural hold. Senator Harry Reid (D-NV), the Senate Majority Leader, has not decided, as yet, to schedule a vote and is not likely to until a majority of the Senate Democrat Caucus, to whom he is beholden, decides that a vote is needed. A bipartisan letter, signed by 14 Republican and 11 Democrat senators, urging Senator Reid to bring HR 872 to a vote has been, to date, to no avail. A number of efforts to engage Senator Boxer, encouraging her to release her “hold” on the bill have met with some success. In a classic move that got inside Senator Boxer’s “decision loop,” Deborah Bass, from the Contra Costa Mosquito and Vector Control District, penned a release calling into question the procedural hold that was picked up by local news media. Once published, it went viral through social networking media. This was a beautiful illustration of the power of social media to shape strategy and should be a lesson to us all in harnessing this means of rapid communication to promulgate our message. The resultant Twitter posts were evidently noted by Boxer’s staff and a rebuttal by the Senator was posted in the local Contra Costa newspaper. From Where I Sit: Notes from the AMCA Technical Advisor by Joe Conlon Unfortunately, Senator Boxer’s rebuttal was fraught with inaccuracies, eg, “EPA allows pesticide spraying to combat diseases such as the West Nile virus, and no change in federal law is required to ensure that the public is protected. In fact, EPA allows immediate spraying of pesticides to address public health emergencies even without a permit. I believe we must protect public health as our top priority, and current law does just that.” Seeking to correct these inaccurate statements concerning HR 872, I sent a letter to the editor that stated the facts of the case. It was not printed. Fortunately, during the AMCA Annual Conference in Austin, the initiative to have an accurate rebuttal to Senator Boxer’s assertions was taken up by the AMCA Board of Directors and I met with Thomas Buckley, a trustee having communications experience, and we penned the following for publication in the Desert Sun Times in Palm Springs, Senator Boxer’s new residence: “One year ago, a bill designed to help protect the public from mosquito-borne diseases like West Nile and Encephalitis passed the House of Representatives with broad bipartisan support. The same bill, known as HR 872 (the Reducing Regulatory Burdens Act of 2011) already has broad bipartisan support in the Senate. So why has this bill – a bill that will save lives and save tax dollars to boot – not been made into law yet? Three words: Senator Barbara Boxer. Despite the pledges of support for the bill’s passage through the Senate of significant majority of her colleagues – Democrat and Republican – Senator Boxer has sadly blocked the bill from reaching the Senate floor for either a debate or a vote. The bill itself is not complex – it simply codifies the regulatory practices which have been adhered to by public health mosquito control agencies across the country for decades. The bill specifically exempts public health agencies from having to get a costly and restrictive NPDES (National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System) permit in order to apply life saving insecticides. The compounds currently used by mosquito control agencies to eliminate mosquitoes (the deadliest animal on the planet, actually) are already thoroughly investigated and vetted for safety and efficacy by a whole host of state and federal agencies; demanding that public health agencies essentially get yet another piece of paper (an expensive piece of paper – at least $500,000 per year in California alone) that will not actually protect a single species or a single acre of habitat is not only pointless but also a particularly glaring example of duplicative federal regulatory overreach. Wing Beats Spring 2012 43
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