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Tom Rice: I would like to know if ours are--I just keep hearing that ours are very much more strict, and that is one of the…

On the recordDecember 10, 2013
I would like to know if ours are--I just keep hearing that ours are very much more strict, and that is one of the reasons why our shipping fleet has dropped from 1,000 American-flag ships in international commerce to 80.
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Tom Rice
Republican · South Carolina

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Tom Rice questions the strictness of U.S. shipping regulations affecting the fleet size.

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