Support the Open America’s Waters Act of 2017 to help Puerto Rico get the Aid it Needs

by: Ro M

recipient: Americans

Senator McCain first introduced the legislation, known as the Open America’s Waters Act of 2017, this summer.



The Merchant Marine Act of 1920, aka the Jones Act, requires that all goods shipped between ports in the United States be transported on American-built ships that are owned and operated by Americans.



Senator McCain, a U.S. Navy veteran and former POW, has been working for years to reform and repeal the Jones Act. He first introduced legislation to repeal the Jones Act in 2010 and, most recently, in January 2016, he introduced an amendment to an energy modernization bill that would have waived the U.S. build requirement for oil and gas tankers. A year earlier, Senator McCain tried to attach a similar amendment to a Keystone XL pipeline bill, again seeking to eliminate the U.S. build requirement of the Jones Act, but the bill passed without McCain’s amendment attached.



We need to band together to get this act repealed indefinitely so Puerto Rico can get the aid it needs!



Call Congress about the Open America's Waters Act here is the link for you to see it: https://www.govtrack.us/congress/bills/115/s1561



Call and ask for the bill to be passed.