October 14, 2008 11:35AM

Once in a Blue Moon: A Regulation Repealed

By Jim Harper

Freedom is blossoming across the land - er, off the coast of Florida - as a law requiring salvagers there to have a license has been repealed.

Democratic Senator Bill Nelson of Florida is the one who took a scythe to the regulatory underbrush (or kelp, I suppose). Republican John Mica of Florida's 7th District introduced the companion bill in the House.

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