{"id":5095,"date":"2024-04-11T08:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-04-11T13:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/?p=5095"},"modified":"2024-04-15T12:52:06","modified_gmt":"2024-04-15T17:52:06","slug":"reminder-your-support-needed-for-sign-on-letter-to-advance-cbp-facilities-legislation","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/2024\/04\/11\/reminder-your-support-needed-for-sign-on-letter-to-advance-cbp-facilities-legislation\/","title":{"rendered":"Reminder: Your Support Needed for Sign-on Letter to Advance CBP Facilities Legislation"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/03\/011.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" src=\"https:\/\/aapw01.wpengine.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/03\/011.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-5068\" style=\"width:309px;height:auto\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/03\/011.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/03\/011-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/03\/011-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Members of Congress and staff have recently reached out to AAPA to express interest in moving the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.aapa-ports.org\/advocating\/PRdetail.aspx?itemnumber=22971&amp;_zs=Or8dl1&amp;_zl=ChBX9\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">CBP SPACE Act<\/a>\u00a0(H.R. 6409), which would tap existing user fees so U.S. Customs and Border Protection (CBP) could fund their facilities at seaports and also statutorily restrict CBP\u2019s ability to make demands of ports.<br><br>Congressional staff has made it clear that a broad demonstration of maritime support is key to moving the bill forward. AAPA has drafted a\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/port.informz.net\/port\/data\/images\/CBP%20SPACE%20Support%20Letter.pdf\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">letter of support<\/a>\u00a0to Congressional leaders. Ports and related businesses are needed to sign on.<br><br>We ask AAPA members to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:dmiller@aapa-ports.org\">send responses to Derek Miller<\/a>\u00a0by Wednesday, April 17 to sign on. Members are also encouraged to send their own endorsement of the bill to House Ways and Means Committee staff by reaching out to\u00a0<a href=\"mailto:eric.ettorre@mail.house.gov\">Eric Ettorre<\/a>. AAPA is glad to provide suggested language upon request.<a href=\"https:\/\/www.naylornetwork.com\/aap-nwl\/articles\/index-v2.asp?aid=825853&amp;issueID=102224\"><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Members of Congress and staff have recently reached out to AAPA to express interest in moving the\u00a0CBP SPACE Act.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":47,"featured_media":5068,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151],"tags":[1264,107],"class_list":["post-5095","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-industry-insights-blog","tag-port-legislation","tag-us-customs-and-border-protection"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/47"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5095"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5095\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5095"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5095"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.aapaseaports.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5095"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}