06/06/2017
https://congress.gov...
"Every day the Coast Guard's missions are critical to our Nation's defense."
"We would be purchasing foreign-made ships for a tradition of American-built ships in the Ready Reserve?"
"if we are going to exploit a strategic American resource, such as natural gas and oil, it ought to be on American-built ships with American sailors"
"I want to move to what is, I guess, my--I don't know, it has become an obsession, how to build ships in the United States..."