Congressman Israel may not have a hat but he sure has the cattle. (Get W5JBP to explain that one.) It was my pleasure to introduce Congressman Steve Israel to a special meeting of the Great South Bay ARC last night. There were about 50 people in a small room and there were a lot of pictures taken. K2DO will write an article and get the pictures up to Rick Linquist so you will shortly be able to read about it on the web site. Just let me say that I am more impressed with Congressman Israel every time I see him. While he may not have a great deal of seniority and he may not be on the Commerce Committee he has the enthusiasm and the intelligence to lead the charge on our CC&R bill. He is a very articulate spokesman on this issue. His arguments and reasons to support the bill are very convincing, I feel, for the non ham. I think we are going to get a lot of mileage here. Right from the start in his Washington office in February he had the idea of "consistency" which is going to make it easier to sell this bill. We have the right guy for the job. Now if we could get him to get a ham license his father would really be happy! He reported that his staff is already getting a lot of calls from people on the Commerce Committee which he feels is an indication that hams across the country are starting to call their representatives. He said that has never seen such interest on any bill he has previously sponsored. I think we have been very fortunate to get him to sponsor the bill. Frank...N2FF......