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Shipbuilding, Mil Con Spending Eyed For Stimulus Package

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Tuesday, January 13th, 2009

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By Emelie Rutherford The massive economic-stimulus legislation under consideration on Capitol Hill could include funding for a Coast Guard icebreaker, commercial-shipbuilding loans, and military- base-improvement efforts. Though the economic-recovery package is not expected to include monies for Pentagon weapons programs, lobbyists and influential lawmakers have proposed these homeland-security and military-construction initiatives. Politicians have said the still-morphing legislation, estimated to cost at least $775 billion, will target so-called "shovel-ready" transportation and infrastructure projects that can begin in short order. President-elect Barack…

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