Thenks Ricki, It is amazing what greed and hunger for power do to people! I am an Independent, and have voted for both parties at different times. I always hear the current "Republicans" criticizing subsidies, and "Democrats" spending, yet here we have a "republican" senator trying to eliminate public access to a publicly funded source of information so that his buddies can make a buck by selling us the same info! How about he works out a contract to privatize weather information to the Feds, they pay less than it costs now, and we all get it free, just like now. I don't think that's what he has planned. Pretty outrageous!