Political Quotes

I write to urge that the State of Maine be selected as a homeport for the Service’s new Arctic Security Cutters.

I want a full, fair, open, transparent investigation of this, not strictly run by the feds.

The decision to build out an 11-ship fleet is a generational investment in American presence in the high latitudes, and Maine offers the Coast Guard an ideal Atlantic homeport from which to project that presence.

Geography makes the case on its own. Maine is the closest point in the continental United States to the Arctic, giving an Atlantic-based cutter the shortest transit to its operating areas.