Duncan Hunter: “Your statement and your comments continue to prove that the Jones Act is critical to our economy, and is an important…”

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.

That is unacceptable. There is no reason to be testing something that the Navy has been using for 5 years.

I thank the gentleman from Virginia for his service. If you don't know, Scott Taylor enlisted in the Navy SEALs in 1997, got out, and then went back to Iraq in 2005. In Ramadi, as a Navy SEAL sniper, he was injured. And here he is now. I…

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.