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House Transportation Committee approves roughly $22 billion for Coast Guard recapitalization in reconciliation package
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The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee approved a reconciliation committee print that includes nearly $22 billion to recapitalize Coast Guard fleets and shore infrastructure.
The House Transportation and Infrastructure Committee on a party-line markup approved a committee print that includes nearly $22 billion to recapitalize U.S. Coast Guard assets, including new cutters, aircraft and icebreakers and construction of the shore-side facilities needed to support them.
Chairman Sam Graves, offering an amendment in the nature of a substitute that the committee adopted as the base text, said the measure ‘‘will provide nearly $22,000,000,000 to recapitalize Coast Guard assets, including the acquisition of cutters, aircraft, icebreakers, while also funding the construction of the facilities needed to support…
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