PHOTO RELEASE: Tuberville Attends Ribbon-Cutting for New U.S. Coast Guard Facility in Birmingham

"We're here to welcome a new winner to our state."

BIRMINGHAM - U.S. Senator Tommy Tuberville (R-AL) attended the ribbon-cutting for the new U.S. Coast Guard (USCG) Enlisted Training Center of Excellence at Birmingham-Southern College (BSC).

Excerpts from Sen. Tuberville's remarks can be found below, and his full remarks can be viewed here. Photos from the event can be viewed here.

"We're here to welcome a new winner to our state. We love winning. The State of Alabama loves winning. Folks, we just got a winner that joined the great State of Alabama-that's the United States Coast Guard Academy. Birmingham Southern has been here a long time. And I want to thank Daniel-the first time I talked to him, I could hear it in his voice about how serious he was here about the future of Birmingham Southern. You can tell how much he cares about it. But this is not the end of Birmingham Southern. All we're doing today-we're changing the curriculum. […]

I want to thank one person that people need to take their hat off to-his name is President Donald Trump. He is the reason this is here today-that we're here. He believes in this country. He believes in law enforcement. He believes in military. He believes in national security. I've talked to him several times about this, and I want to say President Trump is a dealmaker. And by getting this property for the United States Coast Guard Academy, he basically stole it as a negotiator. It came at a very good price for our country. We saved hundreds of millions of dollars by having this facility already here, which if we'd had to built this facility…ten years from now, we might have been able to move into it. […]

President Trump has done a lot of things since he's been President for a year and a half-Space Command, building submarines in Muscle Shoals, Fannie Mae coming to Birmingham-just look at what's going on. Now, we have this. […]"

Senator Tommy Tuberville represents Alabama in the United States Senate and is a member of the Senate Armed Services, Agriculture, Veterans' Affairs, HELP and Aging Committees.

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