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April 15, 2011USA Maritime Statement on Re-Chartering
USA Maritime’s final statement on the re-chartering of the Export-Import Bank of the United States (April 15, 2011) Download PDF
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March 10, 2011USA Maritime’s statement before the Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee
USA Maritime’s statement before the Committee on Financial Services Subcommittee on International Monetary Policy on the re-chartering of the Export-Import Bank of the United States USA Maritime, a coalition of ship owning companies, maritime labor organizations and maritime trade...
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March 7, 2011USA Maritime’s statement on the Application of Cargo Preference to Department of Energy Loan Guaranty Program
“USA Maritime applauds the application of cargo preference requirements by the U.S. Department of Energy to imported cargoes purchased with funds made available through its loans guaranty programs. While the Department of Energy has agreed to apply cargo preference...
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February 20, 2011Op-Ed: Why Take Such a Big Bite From U.S. International Food Aid?
These House cuts would deny food help to roughly 18 million people, argues the director of a food aid alliance. The House of Representatives has put America’s international food aid programs on the chopping block, last week slashing these...
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February 19, 2011Mercy Corps chief says House budget cuts would cripple U.S. disaster response
The head of Portland-based Mercy Corps says the budget bill passed by the House of Representatives Saturday would slash foreign aid and leave the United States unable to respond to a disaster on the scale of last year’s Haiti...
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February 17, 2011In an era of tightening budgets, can America remain a superpower on the cheap?
What is the right foreign policy for a downsizing superpower? In the years ahead, the United States will have to take dramatic steps to curb its ever-expanding fiscal deficits. No matter what our politicians promise, this will mean both...
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February 16, 2011A soft power bargain: A fully funded foreign aid budget is essential…
On Valentine’s Day, Congress received a gift from President Obama: the federal budget for fiscal year 2012. As its opening shot in what promises to be a long and hard budgetary battle, the White House requested $47 billion for...
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February 16, 2011“House budget bill’s deep cuts in humanitarian aid criticized,”
U.S. officials and nonprofit groups are expressing alarm about the deep reductions in humanitarian assistance in the House budget bill racing through Congress, warning that it could leave millions of poor people hungry and put refugees in jeopardy in...
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February 13, 2011USA Maritime’s Statement on Drastic $800 million Cut in Food Aid Programs
USA Maritime (http://www.usamaritime.org/) today released the following statement regarding the 42 percent cut of more than $800 million proposed by House Appropriations Chairman Hal Rogers from the President’s combined food aid budget for P.L. 480 Title II (Title II)...
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