Duncan Hunter

The only way to reverse the decline in the Coast Guard's mission performance is to make the necessary investments to acquire new and improved assets.

You are getting $70 million for the final design review, or the final design.

The point of this hearing is to get to how we get you the most stuff, with the least amount of money, on time.

Let us know when that happens, please.

Because you are not really going to use it, you are just doing it.

So what happens if they don't give you the $70 million? I mean what if something else breaks in some other department, and they have to spend the money for that?

OK, so--but--right. But how do you tell if stuff is being delivered on time or not, based on--if you change the baseline every year, and you change the schedule to match the programs not being on time, but you change the schedule to match…

Thank the gentleman. Hey, on the OPC, let me see.

No matter what you do, by changing requirements to try to get the competition out there, I don't understand how that works.

According to the Coast Guard's Capital Investment Plan, over the next 5 years, annual funding for acquisitions never exceeds $1.2 billion.

I guess the committee, then, had a misunderstanding of what the recompete was for.

But if you make variations, it costs more. I mean that is always--whether it is an airplane or a ship, if you make changes it costs money.

We need to get the OPC line underway and start replacing those really old Medium Endurance Cutters.

He says we can't afford, don't need, don't want a ninth NSC. We need the Offshore Patrol Cutter.

There is no law that says the Coast Guard is responsible for cybersecurity at ports.

We have already talked about the fact that none of the trains--none of the railroads are going to be able to meet the December 31st deadline.

I would like to thank the gentleman from Georgia for dealing with the entire Congress and coming up with only two budgets, Price 1 and Price 2. I think that the chairman has been pulled in just about every different direction, and I am…

So you all recognize the mission. You write about the Arctic, but really don't have any way to get up there and do anything there.

I guess the first question I have is about the Arctic. Let's talk about the Arctic.

I've never met an American who did not want clean water.

If the cuts called for in the 2015 Republican budget are implemented, it will impair EPA's ability to respond to industrial spills and other contamination outbreaks that threaten local drinking water.

The scientific literature unequivocally demonstrates that streams, regardless of their size, or frequency of flow, are connected to downstream waters.

I voted against the Budget Control Act because of its devastating cuts to both mandatory and discretionary programs relied upon by our Nation's seniors, our cities, our communities, and by our constituency.

The science behind the rulemaking is sound.

I think it is, and I think it is sound science.