So rather than splitting the project, which significantly increases the risks to the scheduled completion date, would the Navy consider two options?

I can assure you that at this particular hearing that you and the Ranking Member are the favorites of all of us here on the panel.

In the fiscal year omnibus bill, Congress decided to authorize the DDG-51 multiyear despite some reservations that GAO and others had brought up.

It is, therefore, critical that the Navy carefully manage this multiyear procurement so that both large surface-combatant shipyards have stable and a balanced program workload to sustain the industrial base.

I commend you for your leadership in eliminating barriers to competition in the prescription drug market.

I thank my distinguished colleague. I want to join with the chairman of the Subcommittee on National Parks of the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources, Senator Daines, to support this resolution which was adopted unanimously last week…

Because when you are talking $.30 or $.40 a kilowatt-hour that gives you a lot of running room for alternatives which would look expensive maybe in Boston but are dirt cheap in Cordova, Alaska, or Isle au Haut, Maine.

The grid itself, if it is there, can be the battery, to some extent.

I think the point you make is very important is that there is absolutely no one-size-fits-all in this area.

It seems to me that we are in an energy revolution, and rural areas and islands are Bunker Hill.

What we really need, it seems to me, is we need the private sector to come up with a rural electric system in a box that can be scaled.

But are you seeing, are tests being run? Are communities doing this? Is it happening or are we just still talking about it?

It's a free pass. Why would they worry about doing it again?

If we achieve some kind of diplomatic breakthrough it will relieve one of the greatest pressure points in the world. It will relieve an enormous danger to our country.

Secretary of state is pure policy. And I have some concerns about Mike Pompeo's policies in terms of Iran, North Korea, things that he stated historically, climate change, things that will be important in terms of his representation of the…

Absolutely. I mean and he said it himself on Friday night during the attack. If they deserve an air strike it seems to me they also deserve sanctions.

Russia attacked our country in 2016. It was a -- it was a very serious deliberate sophisticated comprehensive effort to undermine our democracy. And they haven't paid any price.

She doesn't say things casually. And she is not going to look into the camera on Sunday morning and make an unequivocal statement the sanctions will come.