thank you to all who participated! in case you missed it here are a few articles worth a read this week: "swelling navy fleet may mean sea of jobs for alabama, mississippi" - "byrne: end of 'burdensome epa rule' good for alabama" - wpmi "epa moves to rescind obama's clean water rule" - "house armed services panel overwhelmingly passes fy18 defense policy bill" - defense news "house panel votes against cutting a navy lcs from budget bill" - washington examiner "conservatives rejoice as trump ends obama's land/water grab" - liberty headlines "strange, byrne, roby support administration's withdrawal from wotus rule" - al political reporter "huge: house committee passes defense bill that will help alabama shipbuilding" - yellowhammer "byrne: putting americans back to work" - alabama political reporter photo of the week it was a treat to spend some time with students from the robertsdale high school naval jrotc. 