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May 8, 2011USA Maritime’s Letter to the Editor responding to the Washington Post piece, Five myths about foreign aid (May 8, 2011) John Norris cited a Cornell University study concluding that requiring 75 percent of U.S. international food aid to be...
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April 17, 2011Seattle Times Op-Ed on the need for foreign aid and the impact cuts will have to our nation. (April 17, 2011) In the federal budget debate, Rep. Paul Ryan proposes cutting back U.S. foreign aid significantly. Here, U.S. Reps....
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April 15, 2011USA 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 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, 2011“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, 2011These 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, 2011The 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, 2011What 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, 2011On 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, 2011U.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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