John McCain actually said...

"Admiral Roughead, with the growing threat from China, North Korea, and the Middle East, do your forces have enough BMD/SM-3 resources/assets to defend the United States, its allies, and forward-deploy..."

"Admiral Roughead, what will be the impact on most importantly our force projection capability and second the shipbuilding industrial base?"

"should we be looking at a conventional steam catapult solution if the contractor cannot resolve its engineering issues?"

"Hopefully, the legislation we passed will help remedy some of these problems."