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Maine Senators Try To Rally Senate Appropriators Against Changing DDG-1000 Plans

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Friday, June 13th, 2008

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By Emelie Rutherford Maine's senators are appealing to defense appropriators in their chamber to heed the Navy's $2.5 billion budget request for buying a third DDG-1000 destroyer--and to fight House attempts to halt the ship program. "Any significant decrease in FY2009 DDG-1000 funding or a directed delay in ship procurement would have a devastating impact on the stability and affordability of our destroyer shipbuilding industrial base, including the highly skilled and irreplaceable workforce at BIW," which is the General Dynamics…

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