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		<title>HMTF: The Seven Billion Dollar Clue</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2012/02/11/hmtf-the-seven-billion-dollar-clue/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 11 Feb 2012 22:04:00 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Harbor Maintenance Trust Fund (HMTF) is overdue for a remedy.  How do we know? The unspent balance of Harbor Maintenance Tax (HMT) receipts, plus interest, is a mere $7,000,000,000. HMT receipts are accounted for in the channel “maintenance” trust fund.  However (not to be too picky) the Federal channel system is not fully maintained, [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=1046&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>&#8220;What&#8217;s Taking So Long?&#8221;</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2012/01/31/whats-taking-so-long/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 31 Jan 2012 04:57:11 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[I filed a version of this with the good folks at the Connecticut Maritime Coalition whose Deep Water Port notes newsletter carries my perspectives from Washington&#8230; A few years back the trade press started asking from their columns and story headlines why it was taking so long for marine highway progress—on the water and in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=1034&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Time for a Maritime Title</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2012/01/30/time-for-a-maritime-title/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:16:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[In a few days we will see if there is a maritime title, or section, in what is traditionally the highway bill.  What&#8217;s that, you say?  You heard right. Back in July 2011  House Transportation &#38; Infrastructure Committee Chairman John Mica (R-FL) let us peek at the planned contents of the surface transportation bill that finally will [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=1025&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Functional (Not WTF) Government</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/08/02/functional-not-wtf-government/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Aug 2011 19:51:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://mtsmatters.com/?p=979</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[~ Political Drama in Three Acts ~ Cast:  Persons who come to positions in government to make a point and others who come to govern.  Neither conservatives nor liberals alone are cast as good at governing. Forward:  Some like wielding power but their interest wanes when it comes to the nuisance of making government function well. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=979&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Make Time for Maritime Policy</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/07/02/make-time-for-maritime-policy/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 03 Jul 2011 03:37:50 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The piece below appears in the June 2011 edition of the Eno Transportation Foundation newsletter, EnoBrief.  I appreciated the invitation to pen something on a maritime theme and decided to continue on the topic of American maritime policy, which is in need of attention.  Comments are welcome.  Pbea “Now, what about our national maritime policy?” [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=967&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>If you only have hot dog money in your pocket maybe you just buy a hot dog&#8230;but which hot dog?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/06/02/if-you-only-have-hot-dog-money-in-your-pocket-maybe-you-just-buy-a-hot-dog-but-which-hot-dog/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 02 Jun 2011 13:36:45 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My previous post about the surface transportation reauthorization bill—TEA for short—ended with a bit of wait-and-see optimism.  That was then.  Here is a bit of face-facts pessimism to balance it out.  It&#8217;s the kind of yin yang see-sawing that this town sets the mind to doing.  Spend more than a few minutes thinking that things [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=935&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Rush/No-Rush to Replace SAFETEA-LU</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/05/26/the-rushno-rush-to-replace-safetea-lu/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 26 May 2011 20:39:20 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#8217;d think that Congress and the Administration are proud of SAFETEA-LU. That&#8217;s the &#8220;bridge-to-nowhere&#8221;, 6000+ earmark, strangely named measure that was signed into law in 2005 and immediately trashed on the front page of Parade (yes, Parade!), on editorial pages of all stripes, and by interested interest groups. Freight stakeholders were grossly disappointed by the final [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=928&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>HMT Exemption: Just What the Dock Is Ordering</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/04/25/hmt-exemption-is-just-what-the-dock-ordered/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 26 Apr 2011 03:24:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is good to see that some U.S. House Members reintroduced legislation to waive the Harbor Maintenance Tax for cargo so as to remove a disincentive for use of American Marine Highways. It is also good to see that the bill&#8217;s sponsor is Rep. Patrick Tiberi (tea-berry), the chairman of the Select Revenue Measures Subcommittee [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=916&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mineta Speech as a Starting Point</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/03/30/the-mineta-speech-as-a-starting-point/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 31 Mar 2011 03:34:06 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Secretary Norman Mineta provided a service in making his 2007 speech on the maritime sector (excerpts found starting here).  Since he went to the trouble, let&#8217;s use his suggestions as a starting point for an overdue discussion on rethinking and recharging US maritime policy. Secretary Mineta called for moving maritime related functions of other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=903&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mineta Speech, Pt.3</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/02/08/the-mineta-speech-pt-3/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 08 Feb 2011 19:07:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>PaulHBea</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Former Transportation Secretary Norman Mineta offered his audience at the North American Port and Intermodal Finance and Investment Summit recommendations &#8220;we can act on immediately&#8221; to address the inadequate &#8220;role of maritime issues in our national transportation policy.&#8221;    Here are Pt. 1 and Pt.2. Pt.3 follows&#8230; It struck some people as a bit odd.  Here [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=870&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mineta Speech, Pt.2</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/02/02/the-mineta-speech-pt-2/</link>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 03 Feb 2011 03:16:03 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[This is the second installment of a speech by former Secretary of Transportation Norman Mineta, who pointed to some ways that U.S. maritime policy was lacking.  While by no means a comprehensive critique of a policy and sector in need, his remarks were a high altitude flare signaling something needs attention. The first of three [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=858&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>The Mineta Speech, Pt.1</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/02/02/the-mineta-speech-pt-1/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 02 Feb 2011 04:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Little over three years ago in Coral Gables, Florida, Norman Mineta addressed the North American Port and Intermodal Finance and Investment  Summit.  Six months earlier he took his leave from the George W. Bush cabinet where the Democrat served five years, with some distinction, as Secretary of Transportation. The subject of the speech was, in [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=844&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>I&#8217;m Dreaming of a New Congress</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2011/01/04/im-dreaming-of-a-new-congress/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Jan 2011 04:25:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The new two-year Congress commences on January 5th and it promises to be different in ways beyond the changed list of sworn-in men and women. In fact I think that we could see the start of some structural changes in Washington and maybe&#8230;just maybe&#8230;something good could come out of it.  Am I betting on it?  [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=846&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>WRDA: Commonsense Earmarking</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/12/20/wrda-a-commonsense-guide-to-earmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Dec 2010 00:01:16 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[A restaurant is moving into our nearby Del Ray Alexandria neighborhood (and not nearly soon enough, I might add).  It is unabashedly called Pork Barrel BBQ. The name&#8211;chosen by a  couple of former Senate staffers now opening their first restaurant&#8211;has plenty of context in the Washington area where &#8220;pork barrel&#8221; is a mud that gets [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=831&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Congress Should Ban/Allow Earmarking</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/12/17/congress-should-banallow-earmarking/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Dec 2010 05:28:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Step right up to the Washington Sideshow! See the lobbyist do strange things. Go ahead.  Don&#8217;t be afraid.  Ask me about earmarking.  Then watch my head spin, my eyes bulge, and listen as I speak in exasperations, convolutions and contradictions. Outside the Beltway earmarking might be a specialty of tattoo artists.  Inside the Beltway, and [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=819&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Thank you, Mr. Chairman.  Good Luck, Mr. Chairman.</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/11/17/thank-you-mr-chairman-good-luck-mr-chairman/</link>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 17 Nov 2010 16:08:06 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Capitol Hill institution is a phrase that some incoming freshmen Members may not appreciate or find at all useful.  After all, some of them are arriving with the intent to de-institutionalize the place. Democrat Jim Oberstar was de-institutionalized on Election Day.  He lost his re-election bid as did some other senior congressmen, including two other [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=803&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Is Security Going Overboard?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/11/15/is-security-going-overboard/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 15 Nov 2010 14:01:02 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[With this piece on transportation security we introduce Richard Biter, a new addition to our contributors.  Rich&#8217;s many years at the U.S. Department of Transportation gave him a ring-side seat to, among other things, the rise and demise of the Office of Intermodalism and the creation of the Transportation Security Administration&#8230;before the Department of Homeland [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=792&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Shipping The T. Boone Way</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/11/02/shipping-the-t-boone-way/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Nov 2010 14:43:52 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[T. Boone Pickens and I have something in common.  You probably do, too. The uber-capitalist wants to end our nation&#8217;s dependence on foreign fuel sources.  Especially those nation sources that love to take our money and use it to cut US off at the knees. No doubt T. Boone has an uber-financial interest in domestically [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=782&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>We&#8217;re Just Getting Started</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/10/08/were-just-getting-started/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 14:04:12 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[[This first appeared in the America's Marine Highway website and newsletter.] Advocating for the AMH: We’re Just Getting Started If we’ve learned anything about the developing American marine highway it is that it is developing incrementally and slowly.  A few nice-sized steps but no big leaps. I have little doubt that the market will eventually demand [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=766&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>What Are We Doing?</title>
		<link>http://mtsmatters.com/2010/10/07/what-are-we-doing/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 08 Oct 2010 02:09:51 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Canada announced a waiver of its 25 percent import tariff on general cargo vessel, tankers, and ferries longer than 129 meters.  The decision will save shipowners $25 million per year over the next decade. &#8220;This duty relief will accelerate the renewal of the Canadian marine fleet across the country and will help replace aging vessels [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=mtsmatters.com&amp;blog=8522093&amp;post=750&amp;subd=mtsmatters&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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