Jackie Speier actually said...

"Let's talk more about block buys, because my understanding is that, Secretary Stackley, you have already put out an RFP [request for proposal] that presupposes a block buy, even though you don't have ..."

"The disadvantages in our view, is that, as I mentioned in my opening remarks, the program can be considered, quote-unquote, 'locked in,' so that any attempt to adjust the procurement pace, if Congress..."

"that we are not paying for pigs in the poke. And that we are not providing sweetheart deals to the shipbuilders for not providing us ships at the outset that are capable of doing the job that we contr..."

"It seems to me that maybe we should go back to the drawing board and build a frigate that we want."