Duncan Hunter: “How big of a priority was that for the Coast Guard?”

We are the ones, this committee before I was in Congress, put the C-RAM in Iraq in the first place.

I would like to differentiate, too, between super high-tech stuff that is in its infancy stages and is nascent--and a floating surfboard that can sense if there is oil in the water that has been around for 5 years or longer.

But they also cut another $700 million past that, and that was mostly going toward shoreside infrastructure?

Imagine living in a country where the Federal Government decides whether you are jailed or set free based on your politics. Well, don't imagine anymore. It is real and it is happening right here. My colleagues are right to introduce…