I think the game is the administration does this, and it is up to Congress, then, to come in and say, 'Oh, we all love the Coast Guard, we are going to plus them up to what they need to be.' I think it is a dumb game.
Hunter expresses frustration with the administration's funding strategy for the Coast Guard.
Share
More from Duncan Hunter
We are the ones, this committee before I was in Congress, put the C-RAM in Iraq in the first place.
But they also cut another $700 million past that, and that was mostly going toward shoreside infrastructure?
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.
I just want to sing Michael's praises. No one has done what he has done yet, creating a blue tech consortium that someone can go to as a single point.
Other voices in this conversation
