Several States are, however, making significant progress in reforming their guardianship procedures.

Many of these recommendations are reflected in legislation that the Ranking Member, Senator Casey, and I have authored, called the 'Guardianship Accountability Act.'

The Guardianship Accountability Act that Senator Casey and I introduced this morning would further support guardianship reform.

Protecting older Americans from financial fraud and exploitation has long been one of my top priorities as Chairman of this Committee.

I think that's an issue we need to pursue.

I think Maine is second to Minnesota in voting percentage and I think it has to do with states with large numbers of lakes, maybe.

I want to commend the report, the way it's presented, how clear it is.

we are, in a sense, paying bills that have not been paid because some of these platforms are 40, 50 years old.

I hope that one of the requirements for all these new platforms is that they be easily modifiable.

I would appreciate it if you could supply for the Committee by class of ships what percentage of the fleet of that class is available at any given moment?

we go home and are asked to defend the defense budget and the cost.

My sense is the private sector does a better job of their capital assets being online.

Do we have a plan on recapitalizing ready reserve force?

Plus, for the second round, you would have additional competition. You would have additional competition plus industrial base maintenance. I hope that is at least in the discussion.

I understand that is winner-take-all. Out of the five bidders, one yard is going to get all that business.

It would be helpful, I think, if you guys could quantify that to some extent.

I hope that is in the plan.

Why that approach? I mean, you are having five yards, highly qualified, a lot of work, a lot of intellectual input, why not some kind of division of those--of that buy in order, again, to get back to the question we were discussing about…