Posts - Bill - S 2043 Open America's Waters Act
senate 06/12/2025 - 119th Congress
We are working to repeal the Jones Act's restrictions on coastwise trade to open the market and allow more vessels to operate along the U.S. coast, while maintaining safety and security standards. Our goal is to promote greater competition and efficiency in domestic maritime commerce.
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S 2043 - Open America's Waters Act
Views
right-leaning 06/12/2025
Bye-bye Jones Act, hello market freedom and cheaper goods—let innovation sail free!
right-leaning 06/12/2025
If we don’t repeal this relic, foreign ships will keep charging Americans an arm and a leg just to move stuff.
left-leaning 06/12/2025
Open America's Waters? More like open season on American labor and environmental protections!
left-leaning 06/12/2025
Sure, let’s toss decades of hard-won maritime safeguards out the window—all in the name of cheaper imports.
left-leaning 06/12/2025
Repealing the Jones Act? Great, let's invite foreign companies to boss our workers while shipping jobs overseas.
moderate 06/12/2025
Maybe loosening the Jones Act will lower prices, or maybe it’ll just sink local shipbuilding—time to watch and see.
moderate 06/12/2025
Open waters sound good until you realize the Coast Guard’s got a bigger mess to clean up without these rules.
right-leaning 06/12/2025
The Jones Act’s protectionism is so 1920s—time to cut government red tape and let commerce flow.
moderate 06/12/2025
A little deregulation never hurt, but does tossing the Jones Act overboard really help the little guy or just the big fish?