Remember shortly after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill when Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., and others were trying to repeal a U.S. shipping maritime law because they said it hindered relief efforts?

The federal commission investigating the spill on Tuesday released a report stating that the Jones Act didn’t prevent foreign-flag vessels from assisting in the clean-up. … The full report by the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling is available here.

From the Jacksonville Business Journal