The Maritime Outlook for the 116th Congress
When we last wrote about the 115th Congress, it had just completed work on the Coast Guard Authorization Act of 2019 and Save Our Seas legislation. These bills were summarized in our Mainbrace (October 2018) article, Congress Passes Major Maritime Safety Legislation but Fails to Fund a New Icebreaker or Pass Authorization for Most Coast Guard Programs. Of notable significance since our last article, the 2019 spending deal finally provided funding for a new polar icebreaker. Read More ยป
This article by Joan M. Bondareff, of counsel at Blank Rome, and Genevieve Cowan, Public Policy Advisor at Blank Rome Government Relations LLC, is one in a series of articles written for Blank Rome Maritime's quarterly Mainbrace newsletter. To view the other articles in the April 2019 edition of Mainbrace, please click here.