Sen. Jim Webb (D-VA) and eight other senators sent a letter yesterday to Senate appropriators urging them to add $425 million for Navy ship maintenance and repair to the fiscal year 2009 defense supplemental bill. The supplemental request from the Pentagon includes $155 million for ship repair and maintenance, but the senators argue the Navy needs an additional $425 million to fix ships like the guided-missile cruiser Port Royal (CG-73) that ran aground earlier this year, as well as the...
