06/05/2012
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"Last month, at the full Committee mark-up of the fiscal year 2013 State and Foreign Operations appropriations bill, this Committee cut $33 million in Foreign Military Financing for Pakistan to protest..."
"The importance of our Navy and to our ability to project power, particularly with the pivot to the Asia Pacific region, cannot be overstated."
"I would ask you to address my concern and how the Department settled on 285 ships when virtually every study calls for 300 to 313."
"I'm very concerned that the ship building account is significantly undervalued."