KITTERY (AP) — Senators from Maine and New Hampshire are blasting a request by the Obama administration for Congress to authorize an additional round of base closings.
A joint statement by Sens. Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins of Maine and Jeanne Shaheen and Kelly Ayotte of New Hampshire says another round of base closings doesn’t make sense, either from a defense perspective or from a dollars and cents perspective.
They said Thursday that the 2005 base closings are just now being completed. They said it’s clear that costs were greater and savings lower than projected.
Portsmouth Naval Shipyard was spared in the last round of base closings, but Brunswick Naval Air Station was shut down in May.
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