09/15/2015
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"I think this committee needs to keep a very close oversight role here because there is just a lot we need to do and the coordination between the Navy and the Coast Guard has not been that good."
"It is clearly in the national interest for the U.S. to have more than one heavy icebreaker."
"The Arctic is key strategic terrain in part because of the new opportunities there, new challenges."
"We should have no man or woman who puts the uniform of the U.S. military on that should deploy on a ship that is that old and broken."