After speaking with Mr. Garamendi, what we might do on the House floor is create this fund for you.

OK. I am not understanding. This chart is fake. This is a fake chart, because all you have is the dark blue.

Yes, but what I don't understand is if you wait long, if you keep waiting, you are not going to need to do any service life extensions, because it is going to overlap the OPCs.

So, right now, the very first ship, the Dependable, should have been decommissioned in 2011.

What we would really like to see is your 20-year plan, because, even when you get all--so say that everything works beautifully...

But if you keep analyzing things, you are never going to do anything.

But it has been 7 years.

So here is what we are going to do. We are going to have a hearing in July on the 5-year plan and the 20-year plan and on your unfunded requirements list.

And the committee would highly recommend that you don't do your own thing, and that you piggyback on DoD's plan.

Why would you go out and do market research on something the Department of Defense already has?

Why wouldn't you have your 5-year plan along with that? Because then how do you know what you need, if you don't have a 5-year plan?

You don't do that. In fact, you are highly censored by your overseers at OMB, so you are not even able to come in and say, 'Here are all the things that the Coast Guard really needs, OMB can go to hell.'

You have a total disconnect between the budget you are receiving, or the budget request the Coast Guard has given Congress.

Well, why do you think the disconnect exists between what the President has said he wants to do and wants to use the Coast Guard for, and the lack of funding?

I don't understand. But my--we go around this all the time, back and forth, back and forth.

It seems to me that rising sea levels will be a challenge for the Coast Guard.

Thank you. And, Vice Admiral Ray, my question is I know you are aware of how important the Port of Long Beach is to our national economy.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman McCaul and Ranking Member Thompson for holding this information hearing.