Two senators from Maine are asking the U.S. Army inspector general to provide an accounting of interactions with Robert Card before the Oct. 25 shootings.
President Donald Trump declared a national emergency last month to pursue money from federal military construction and counterdrug efforts to pay for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
Republican Sen. Susan Collins of Maine spoke in South Portland, where high-ranking U.S. Coast Guard officials celebrated an upgraded command center for northern New England.
The U.S. Navy's triumph at Mobile Bay, combined with victorious Federal ground campaigns in Maryland, Virginia, Tennessee and Georgia, helped reelect Abraham Lincoln and doomed the Confederacy to defeat.
The Navy announced Thursday that it gave the nod to Capt. Daniel Ettlich, who currently serves as deputy for shipyard operations at the Naval Sea Systems Command in Washington, D.C.
The former Loring Air Force Base in far northern Maine would serve as the launch site, while the former Naval Air Station Brunswick would act as mission control.