John McCain

I strongly support accession to the Law of the Sea Convention. Remaining a nonparty undermines our ability to further U.S. national security interests.

Do you agree that the 30-year shipbuilding plan should reflect realistic cost estimates and include all important shipbuilding efforts for that document to be useful for decisionmakers?

If the F-35 program costs continue to significantly increase and the F-35 development does not go as well as promised--draining resources from other priority programs that are needed by the Navy--what actions would you recommend the…

The Navy is facing a potential shortfall of strike fighter aircraft in the next decade.

Governor Mabus, department-wide, nearly half of the DOD's 95 largest acquisition programs have exceeded the Nunn-McCurdy cost growth standards.

How important they are to the west?

It seems to me that a target date of 2062 is not something that we should be satisfied with.

Are you optimistic about recent dialogue between the United States and Russia?

I think it is absolutely essential that we work with Pakistan to solve the problems in Central Asia, and they are all linked together.

Will you look at those and give us a response in writing as to what you feel about those proposals?

I think the Six-Party Talks should be resumed.

Yes, sir. They should.

I think we are in agreement that China plays a key role in whatever cooperation we might lead to be expected from them.

We need to somehow make sure that the aid that we are giving to Pakistan goes to the purpose for----

Let me even recommend to you that you take a trip down to the border and are briefed personally by the individuals not only that are tasked to enforce our border, but also the residents, the mayors, city councils, and others who are…

The collapse of Fannie Mae was a direct contributor to many of the economic difficulties we have today.

All four Governors of border States have requested the deployment of the National Guard to the border.

Should those benchmarks be included in the aid package to Pakistan?

There are many national security advantages to acceding to the Law of the Sea Convention.

I hope you will work to keep the committee informed and help us perform our constitutional duties.

The war there and in Pakistan is one that we can and must win.

Mr. Work, will you look into this contracting folly and ensure me that the Navy will begin awarding contracts on this submarine program and other SSPs under fixed price-type contracts, where appropriate?

I rather suspect those unfunded commitments are large.

The point is, with this consolidation it's hard to have true competition.

Business as usual is no longer an option.