I would just add for the record that Congress asked the Navy and the Navy is seeking and has sought to develop a faster,...
Absolutely not. We want to keep it here.
With regard to deployment of the ship, it would normally be deployed with other ships who may have--as an aircraft carri...
when the history is written of the NIH, there will be a chapter that is entitled 'The Porter-Harkin-Specter' chapter
I believe the Navy had stated that the ship for survivability purposes meets or exceeds the same standards in those elem...
Now, what is the congressional cost cap? Congress when the price was high put a cost cap on it.
It seems to me, having been in the shipyard in Alabama, that this ship, it almost looks like an automobile plant...
I think it has maybe a role, an expanded role to play in the future.
We just can't keep doing this every year.
We were promised massive civilian furloughs that didn't occur.
It's really important because the Marine Corps is such a critical part of our defense structure, and in a crisis, that's...
You just can't keep borrowing and spending.
One of the problems we have is that the President and the Democratic Senate has said: We will not give another dime to D...
I would urge the Congress to support the B-61 Life Extension Program.
I totally agree.
As I recall, the initial estimate was about $290 million or something a ship, the base ship, almost as a commercial ship...
I believe as a veteran member of the Appropriations Committee looking at all the aspects of the various requests for mon...
In GDP (gross domestic product) and jobs, right?
