John McCain actually said...

Secretary Gates, will they increase the number of civilian experts they send to Afghanistan to help with reconstruction and development?

Senator McCain asks about increasing civilian experts for Afghanistan's reconstruction.

01/26/2009

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Will your continued underfunding of this requirement not drive us toward a hollow force?

an argument could be made that designing a new destroyer is not the most cost-effective way to bring the Navy's fleet of ships into the 21st...

So they haven't even begun the analysis of alternatives.

I've never seen, in 22 years in the United States Navy and now 22 years in Congress, anything like the deal that you tried to pull off.