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In case you missed it, the U.S. House of Representatives Subcommittee on Courts and Competition Policy yesterday conducted a hearing entitled "Legal Issues Concerning State Alcohol Regulation". Here's the link that includes the video and the statements from each witness. Lot's of buzz about this from both sides of the argument. Essentially the beer wholesaler's association wants Congress to enact legislation to prohibit direct shipping of any type of alcohol.

Here's a link to Wine Industry Insight's article listing 11 of the 14 members of the subcommittee that have accepted contributions from the beer wholesaler's association. Here's a link to the Specialty Wine Retailers Association statement and Tom Wark's blog post. Please read this information to better understand what's going on here, then get involved to raise awareness of this issue.