The state’s 16-member congressional delegation penned a letter Thursday to the head of the Federal Office of Management and Budget in response to President Barack Obama leaving out construction funding for the Port of Savannah deepening in his 2015 budget proposal.As heard on the radio
In a letter to OMB Director Sylvia Burwell, Georgia’s two Republican senators, nine Republican representatives and five Democratic representatives said they were quote “disappointed” by the office’s construction funding omission for the estimated $650 million Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP).
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