[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 160 (2014), Part 3]
[House]
[Pages 3722-3723]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                      DEEPENING THE SAVANNAH RIVER

  (Mr. KINGSTON asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. KINGSTON. Mr. Speaker, in Georgia, 352,000 jobs are related to 
the Port of Savannah. It is a major export facility exporting 62 
percent of the goods that go through there.
  We would have even more jobs if we deepened the Savannah River from 
42 to 47 feet. In fact, the payoff, the cost-benefit analysis is a 
dollar spent and a $5.50 return. Yet, after 14 years and $41 million 
worth of study, Congress, the bureaucracy, just barely has said let's 
go forward.

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  Congress, in January, signaled that we had had enough; cut the red 
tape, get the project moving, and classified it as a project under 
construction.
  The President and Vice President have repeatedly said they support 
the project, yet, to my shock, and those of us in Congress, in their 
budget, which just has come out, they have not funded this important 
job-creating project. I do not understand it.
  I am astounded by an administration who claims to say this is the 
year of action. Why would they not move forward on deepening the 
Savannah River?
  Three hundred and fifty-two thousand jobs are related to this, cost-
benefit analysis of 1 to 5.5. Yet, the administration continues to 
dither.

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