A bipartisan group of US Senators is urging their colleagues to approve full funding for the Maritime Security Program for Fiscal Year 2016. The Senators, led by Republican Senator Roger Wicker and Democratic Senator Cory Booker, warn that without full MSP funding, “[it] would cost the government at least $65 billion to replicate the capacity provided by MSP vessels and access to the global intermodal system that is made available to the Department of Defense by MSP participants.” Read Online (
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