Ray Mabus: “The service that has embraced alternative energy with a greater enthusiasm than anybody else is the United States Marine…”

If we don't get an American-made, more stably-based source of fuel, if we don't get some competition into the fuel, we're looking at fewer soldiers, fewer sailors, fewer platforms.

the President said repeatedly that he would veto a budget that locked in sequestration level funding.

Because of the long lead time needed for shipbuilding, it is not the job of one administration. It is not the job of one Congress.

It follows then as certain as night succeeds day that without a decisive Naval force we can do nothing definitive and with it everything honorable and glorious.