John Garamendi actually said...

We would be purchasing foreign-made ships for a tradition of American-built ships in the Ready Reserve?

I think we have an opportunity here to achieve what you said in your last couple of sentences...

OMB has done its thing, and that is fine. They can suggest, but we are the ones that are actually going to write the appropriation as well a...

Every day the Coast Guard's missions are critical to our Nation's defense.