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The Recreational Marine Industrial Complex

It’s a well established fact that Washington D.C. has become the “coctail-partying” junketing capital of the United States—only, up there in D.C., they call it “lobbying.” Every sin has an euphemism.

Now, the NMMA (National Marine Manufacturers Association) has decided to join the party; after all, they have access to some pretty tempting hardware, and that’s where the money is—up there, North of Richmond.

Care to guess who gets the final bill for this move?

We’ll see.

UPDATECongress advanced several (FY) 2024 appropriation bills—which include a number of the recreational boating industry’s funding priorities.

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