{"id":6,"date":"2022-11-09T15:33:27","date_gmt":"2022-11-09T15:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/?p=6"},"modified":"2022-11-09T16:04:18","modified_gmt":"2022-11-09T16:04:18","slug":"senator-collins-press-release","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/feature\/senator-collins-press-release\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Collins Press Release"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Ranking Member of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, met with the President of Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), Jerry Paul, in her Washington, D.C., office.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul stated, \u201dI have been meeting with key Congressional members in Washington.\u00a0 We will continue to increase the frequency of our interaction and engagement on priority issues in Washington and Augusta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot overstate how helpful Senator Collins has been to Maine Maritime Academy in her role as a leader on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, particularly as to the new Training Ship State of Maine \u00a0&#8211; NSMV (National Security Multi-Mission Vessel) \u2013 to arrive in October 2024.\u00a0 I extend a sincere \u201cThank You\u201d to her for this support and for this press release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/newsroom\/senator-collins-meets-with-mma-president-jerry-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Senator Susan Collins, the Ranking Member of the Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, met with the President of Maine Maritime Academy (MMA), Jerry Paul, in her Washington, D.C., office.<\/p>\n<p>President Paul stated, \u201dI have been meeting with key Congressional members in Washington.\u00a0 We will continue to increase the frequency of our interaction and engagement on priority issues in Washington and Augusta.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI cannot overstate how helpful Senator Collins has been to Maine Maritime Academy in her role as a leader on the Senate Transportation Appropriations Subcommittee, particularly as to the new Training Ship State of Maine \u00a0&#8211; NSMV (National Security Multi-Mission Vessel) \u2013 to arrive in October 2024.\u00a0 I extend a sincere \u201cThank You\u201d to her for this support and for this press release.\u201d<\/p>\n<p><a class=\"button\" href=\"https:\/\/www.collins.senate.gov\/newsroom\/senator-collins-meets-with-mma-president-jerry-paul\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Read Press Release<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/feature\/senator-collins-press-release\/\">&#8230;Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6\/revisions\/23"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mainemaritime.edu\/mariner\/shipmate-november-2022\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}