I just do not understand why this administration's budget seemingly is preparing in just the most modest way for the bui...
We can't have everything we want, but $2.5 billion to maintain the fleet, to accomplish or at least try to meet the targ...
I have been there, and thank you for your hospitality.
I am committed to doing what I can to make sure that you and the Coast Guard have the resources you need to carry out th...
The $1 billion Capital Investment Plan is, in my view, wholly inadequate to replace the old and unreliable assets of the...
I am very disappointed in the President's 2014 budget request for the Coast Guard.
We hold the men and women of the Coast Guard in the highest regard on this subcommittee.
The Coast Guard reported 141 incidents of sexual assaults in 2012. The number was up from 83 in 2011 and 75 in 2010.
The budget request includes a reduction of 850 military billets; moves 1,000 reservists to inactive status; reduces capi...
These are priorities for our Nation. That's what the Senators of both parties tell me they want.
Let me begin where you began, because it is very troubling to many of us in the Senate and House who have been following...
I think it is important for us, when we ask people to serve, to be able to give them not luxury but something very comfo...
This capital investment request the President submitted for the Coast Guard is, no pun intended, a sea change from the $...
I want to tell the members of our subcommittee to think about the possibility of building an icebreaker.
I believe the topline given to the Coast Guard in the President's budget request is wholly inadequate.
How much is in the whole capital budget for this year?
We are spending an awful lot of time up here talking about securing our land borders between Mexico, California, Arizona...
The request essentially overwrites the congressional direction that we gave in 2012 and 2013.
