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VIRGINIA: Port Authority to receive $20 million for offshore wind

January 27, 2022 โ€” The Virginia Port Authority will receive a $20 million grant from the Department of Transportation to make improvements to Portsmouth Marine Terminal to turn it into a staging area to support the building of 180 wind turbines 27 to 42 miles off the Virginia Beach coast.

Sens. Mark Warner and Tim Kaine made the announcement Jan. 13 and said in a joint statement that โ€œthis funding is a recognition of the Commonwealthโ€™s leadership in this space and will go a long way toward establishing Virginia as a hub for offshore wind development along the East Coast.โ€

The money came from the Department of Transportationโ€™s Port Infrastructure Development Program, a competitive discretionary grant program run by the Maritime Administration. Warner, Kaine and Rep. Bobby Scott co-signed a letter to Secretary of Transportation Pete Buttigieg in support of the portโ€™s grant application.

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New Hampshire fishing fleet seeks support from 2020 Democrats

February 10, 2020 โ€” This is a rush transcript from โ€œThe Story with Martha MacCallum,โ€ February 7, 2019. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.

BRET BAIER, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Airtime for Fox News Sunday. We will be heading out to New Hampshire tomorrow. Weโ€™ll be there Monday for Special Report. Thanks for inviting us into your home tonight. Thatโ€™s it for this Special Report. Fair, balanced and still unafraid. Hereโ€™s Martha. Have a great weekend. Hey, Martha.

MARTHA MACCALLUM, FOX NEWS ANCHOR: Iโ€™ll see you in New Hampshire.

BAIER: You bet.

MACCALLUM: All right. So, one hour from now, Joe Biden will be center stage at the New Hampshire Democratic debate tonight. That center spot reserved for the candidate with the best polling averages and that is still Joe Biden in New Hampshire tonight.

But Pete Buttigieg will be two to the left of him. He comes into New Hampshire with some growing momentum. Look at this brand new Suffolk University poll of the Granite State shows a surge from the former Mayor of South Bend who is now well within the margin of error to topple Bernie Sanders who has to be wondering how to deflect Mayor Peteโ€™s advance at this point, practically on his home turf in New Hampshire next door to Vermont.

Joe Biden is fourth in that poll, but Biden is trying to fight his way back.

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SEN. BERNIE SANDERS (D-VT), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: I have great respect for Mayor Pete and the service of this nation. But I do believe, itโ€™s a risk to be just straight up with you, for this party to nominate someone whoโ€™s never held high office higher than mayor of a town of 100,000 people in Indiana.

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