"Let me start with a thank you for the good work you have been doing with regard to Ukraine, pushing the necessary equipment into Ukraine."
"They were virtually destroyed in the previous 4 years of the previous administration. Very rapidly rebuilt."
"Building on that, and on what Mr. Courtney was raising with regard to sealift, it is clear that we are in a position now to not be able to support our efforts in the Western Pacific, should it be nece..."
"Well, we will be working on that, a National Maritime Security Program, in the coming months ahead of us."
"We can build more and more ships, but if we cannot keep them at sea because they cannot be maintained in an orderly and quick way, it doesn't do much for us."
"The tanker program is a good start, but it is not even a sufficient start, just good to get started."
"We do not have in place today the fleet, the ships, the vessels, the personnel to sustain ourself."
"The budget for the Navy... doesn't seem to be enough. It will never be enough to build the fleet necessary."
"The bottom line of this is if we develop a National Maritime Security Program that uses the Jones Act fleet, makes them militarily useful, along with the current MSP program, we could do this at a fra..."
"Myself and other Members of the Committee have noticed that global investment in developing technologies that decrease the noise footprint of airports and commercial aircraft is increasing."
"It's an important part of our work."
"I applaud the Army for its recently released climate strategy that seeks to transition our tactical fleet away from a sole reliance on fossil fuels."