Getting their two cents in as the Bush administration prepares its FY '05 budget request, 14 senators recently urged the White House budget office to nearly triple funding for the Coast Guard's recapitalization program so that the ship and aircraft systems could be developed and built over a 10-year span, or half the time currently planned.
The senators, led by Olympia Snowe (R-Maine), are seeking $1.9 billion in FY '05 to accelerate the Integrated Deepwater System, which was conceived as a 20-year project before the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks against the United States.
"Since then our national priorities have changed and we have come to the stark …
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