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A long-awaited defense authorization bill

A long-awaited defense authorization bill

Mississippi’s congressional delegation on Friday celebrated saving as many as 3,000 state jobs by securing $1 billion for an amphibious warship in the massive spending bill awaiting final Senate passage. The ship will be built at the Huntington Ingalls shipyard in Pascagoula.

The House had allotted $800 million for construction of a 12th LPD 17 San Antonio-class vessel, but the figure was bumped to $1 billion during negotiations in a House-Senate conference committee, presumably through the influence of Republican Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the committee’s vice chairman and a key negotiator.

The ship, designed to carry Marines and their equipment to foreign shores, was not included in President Barack Obama’s proposed budget. But Navy and Marines officials told Congress they could use more of the warships. The latest order is expected to preserve jobs that would have been eliminated with completion of the 11th vessel, possibly trickling down to more lost jobs at Ingalls’ suppliers.

With Senate passage Friday, Congress also completed action on a long-awaited defense authorization bill. Republican Rep. Steven Palazzo, in whose district the amphibious ship will be built, said that the fiscal 2015 legislation that passed as the spending bills progressed “not only provides for the security of our nation at home and abroad, but it secures the military assets of South Mississippi “

The legislation passed Friday also protects other defense programs based in Mississippi.

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