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Bipartisan Mix Of Senators Calls For Obama To Boost Shipbuilding Support

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Thursday, December 18th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Eighteen senators called yesterday for President-elect Barack Obama to support "a robust shipbuilding budget and policies" for military and commercial vessels. "Such policies and funding would create and sustain highly skilled jobs, strengthen our national and homeland security, and modernize and expand our domestic marine transportation highway," states the letter dated Dec. 15 but sent yesterday by Sens. Mary Landrieu (D-La.), Susan Collins (R-Maine), and 16 co-signers. Collins and Landrieu both emerged victorious last month from tough…

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