A bipartisan group of 66 Representatives have called on the Secretaries of Transportation and Defense to help ensure that all Federal agencies fully enforce existing U.S.-flag cargo preference shipping requirements. In a letter to the Secretaries, the Representatives stated that: “We ask that you encourage the President to affirm the Administration’s support for Ship American and to direct all Executive Branch departments and agencies to fully comply with the spirit and the letter of existing U.S.-flag cargo preference shipping requirements.”
The effort to ensure that U.S.-flag vessels and their U.S. citizen crews receive their rightful share of U.S. government taxpayer financed cargoes is being led by Representatives John Garamendi (D-CA), Duncan Hunter (R-CA), David Joyce (R-OH) and Cedric Richmond (D-LA).
The full statement is attached. (
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