[Congressional Record Volume 165, Number 110 (Friday, June 28, 2019)]
[Senate]
[Page S4676]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                        PETITIONS AND MEMORIALS

  The following petition or memorial was laid before the Senate and was 
referred or ordered to lie on the table as indicated:

       POM-101. A resolution adopted by the House of 
     Representatives of the State of Louisiana urging the United 
     States Congress to provide adequate funding to the United 
     States Army Corps of Engineers for the completion of the 
     proposed project to deepen the Mississippi River Ship Channel 
     to fifty feet; to the Committee on Environment and Public 
     Works.

                        House Resolution No. 307

       Whereas, deepening of the Mississippi River Ship Channel to 
     fifty feet is a historic infrastructure project that is vital 
     to our nation's economic prosperity; and
       Whereas, the expansion of the Panama Canal has made it 
     imperative to improve access on the Mississippi River for 
     larger Post-Panamax ships for export and import of goods; and
       Whereas, the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the 
     state of Louisiana desire deepening the Mississippi River 
     Ship Channel to fifty feet; and
       Whereas, the project is approved and awaiting federal 
     funding; and
       Whereas, thirty-one states will receive economic benefits 
     by the enhanced water carrying capacity of the Mississippi 
     River Ship Channel, also known as the gateway to America's 
     Heartland; and
       Whereas, the Mississippi River Ship Channel and tributaries 
     currently account for seven hundred fifty billion dollars of 
     the nation's economy and two million four hundred thousand 
     jobs; and
       Whereas, each new additional foot of water draft will 
     account for an additional one million dollars in cargo on a 
     vessel; Now, therefore, be it
       Resolved, That the Legislature of Louisiana memorializes 
     the Congress of the United States to provide adequate funding 
     to the United States Army Corps of Engineers for the 
     completion of the proposed project to deepen the Mississippi 
     River Ship Channel to fifty feet; Be it further
       Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution shall be 
     transmitted to the secretary of the United States Senate and 
     the clerk of the United States House of Representatives, to 
     each member of the Louisiana delegation to the United States 
     Congress, the assistant secretary of the Army for Civil 
     Works, the commander of the United States Army Corps of 
     Engineers, New Orleans District, and the governor.

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