Ray Mabus: “If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel…”

If it was not giving us what we needed, or if it was too expensive, or if it wasn't going to perform in the way that it should, we killed them.

It is clear that the Navy and Marine Corps team offer the best value to advance both our global security and our global economic interest.

The fact that we allow these tyrants and dictators like Putin to basically hold our families and our economy hostage for their bad acts.

It is an example, Senator, of when you miss a year building a ship, because we missed some years--we only built one submarine instead of two--you just do not make that up.