I suspect that the gap period has led to pressure to maintain the construction schedule at the expense of efficiency and total costs.
we shouldn't be making changes in the middle of a shipbuilding acquisition contract.
This has been a very thoughtful and constructive hearing.
Secretary Stackley, one recurring theme obviously is sequestration.
That was one of his opening questions, and I did not get to it in my response.
the long-term goal for fleet size is 313 ships.
Thank you, Senator Blumenthal.
That is an interesting comment. Thank you very much.
Will the Navy have the resilience to avoid letting the shipyard make very inefficient, expensive production decisions?
And let me join you in saluting the Capital Police officers, who protect us every day and today particularly.
On behalf of the Interior, Environment, and Related Agencies Appropriations Subcommittee, I'd like to convene this hearing on the fiscal yea...
I think one of the benefits of heritage areas is they have broad community support.
It is a great pleasure to have the opportunity today to join my senior Senator, Jack Reed, in introducing our fellow Rhode Islander, Brian N...
if we want the next generation to be custodians of the environment and not just in certain areas, but throughout this country, we have to ex...
There has to be at least a core Federal support level because that is what pulls a lot of the private support.
Without, I think, healthy dialog within the Congress and the administration, we're not going to be as effective as we should be.
Well, thank you very much. That adds, I think, some context and some real value to what has been so far a very valuable discussion in and of...
What it doesn't do is allow sort of the not only just oversight, but, you know, members to be able to indicate the local preferences.
