Dianne Feinstein actually said...

"It's kind of like a shadow, and I think we need to flesh it out."

"If it can't operate, why fund it? If it doesn't operate well, why fund it when, as I understand it, there are other methods of handling the problem?"

"And the Navy is accepting of this transfer?"

"Well, if the original estimate was September, and it's now March, that's a substantial period of time."