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Christopher Shays: Congressman Shay says that for cruise ships, one, he doesn't necessarily believe or doesn't frankly know whether the…

On the recordJune 27, 2006
Congressman Shay says that for cruise ships, one, he doesn't necessarily believe or doesn't frankly know whether the statistics so far provided by cruise ships in general are accurate, and says that basically, that the government, that citizens shouldn't have to rely on self-reporting by cruise lines, that there should be some standards about how crimes or missing people or people overboard or any incidents at sea are reported.
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Christopher Shays
Connecticut

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Christopher Shays expresses skepticism about the reliability of cruise ship statistics and advocates for government standards on reporting incidents at sea.

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