Dear Members and Friends...

This week IVC had a team in Washington making calls on the members in
the Senate which are dealing with the important ICV bill, The "The
Cruise Vessel Security and Safety Act of 2009." or S 588.  The members
paid their own expenses and included Emily Ball, Laurie and Bill
Dishman, Lynda and Richard Sanford, and myself.  I wanted to advise you
that the calls we made on the members of the Senate Committee were MOST
positive. 

All of us were very pleased with the feedback we received in EACH and
EVERY office we visited.  This bill is moving forward and we are most
hopeful that the bill will be marked up in the Senate within the first
couple of weeks of July.  This will be a major step forward. Our next
step would then be to move the bill forward towards markup in the House.
Everything is on track to accomplish this goal.

We were extremely pleased with the press ICV continues to receive.  This
includes articles on Saturday, Sunday and Monday of this week.  If you
have not seen all of this great press, the links are shown below.  Take
time to read these great articles that support our efforts:


Saturday, June 20th  AOL News:  "Going over the Edge" 

http://news.aol.com/article/overboard-on-cruise-ships/533317


Sunday, June 21st Travel Talk Radio:  Interview conducted by Sandy
Dhuyvetter with Alexander Anolik, Travel Attorney and Author which
discusses the need for this legislation 

http://www.eturbonews.com/9988/travel-attorney-and-author-alexander-anolik-s
peaks-out-about-crui


Monday, June 22nd CNN.Com  "Sexual assaults on the high seas come under
scrutiny"

http://www.cnn.com/2009/TRAVEL/06/22/cruise.sexual.assault/index.html


The timing of these articles COULD NOT have been better.  Clearly, the
world sees that there is a major problem and all of these media articles
just continue to tell the public about this issue. These articles were
also very helpful with the congressional calls we were making.


ICV Washington Team


PS:  If you have problems with the above links, just go to ICV news at
www.internationalcruisevictims.org