Wednesday, June 19, 2013
There is more than $38 million for two military construction projects in Maine in a Senate spending bill that passed a subcommittee today. It appears that is money that has a good chance of staying in the final spending bill that eventually will pass both the House and Senate, since the same funding was in a bill already approved by the full House.
Sen. Susan Collins, a member of the Senate Appropriations Committee, said the full committee’s military construction and veterans affairs subcommittee approved the money as part of its version of the 2012 spending bill: $15.6 million to help build a 52,000-square-foot Training Readiness Center in Bangor for portions of the Maine National Guard's 52nd Troop Command; and $23 million for the construction of a 59,000-square-foot Armed Forces Reserve Center in Brunswick to support the missions of the Maine National Guard's 133rd Engineer Battalion headquarters and other units.
Those same amounts were in the House bill, Rep. Mike Michaud, D-2nd, noted earlier this month.
President Obama requested the projects, initially, as part of his proposed 2012 budget.
Collins’ office said that the spending bill approved by the Senate subcommittee also calls on the Navy to speed up safety and efficiency improvement projects at the Navy’s four public shipyards, which includes the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery.
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Kevin Miller is Washington bureau chief for the Portland Press Herald and MaineToday Media. He has worked as a journalist in Maine for 6 ½ years, covering the environment, politics and the State House. Before arriving in Maine, he wrote about politics, government and education for newspapers in Virginia and Maryland.
Kevin can be reached at 317-6256 or kmiller@mainetoday.com
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