John Garamendi

And you are the most recent to have lost 2 airplanes and 346 people dying as a result of a problem with your quality and your airplane. Is that correct?

So the answer is yes, you do those things?

You have at least three employees that have left the company--Adam Dickson, Rick Ludtke, and also a whistleblower in Charlotte--all of which said the company's goal is profit over quality. Are they correct?

A Native American woman in the community of which I was raised said, and they came and they cut down the trees and they burned them.

We simply should say, no, not here, not now, not ever.

Twenty-four years later, Pebble Mine should never happen. Not now, not tomorrow.

Some places are precious, unique. This particular part of the world... is really unique.

You think you can do it only if the ships are meeting your schedule, that is the ships are available by your schedule.

I want to pick that sustainment issue up and carry it forward.

That was excellent. That was really, really well done by both of you.

I would be remiss in saying that the power of the purse lies with the Congress, not with the President.

If we don't have a clear schedule, if those ships are not coming back on schedule, then the best of intentions are just simply aren't going to work.

I am very, very concerned that all of the best intentions that you may have... are going to be pushed aside by the COCOM commanders.

I have asked Ms. Luria to join us on these committee hearings as much as possible, particularly when we are dealing in an area of which she has significant history and experience.

I might add that you have got a 20-year plan to upgrade the infrastructure. I don't know how you can meet today's demand with a 20-year plan for updating the infrastructure.

I perceive this scheduling issue to be fundamental. And it is basically a power issue.

You cannot take care of a 290 fleet, and therefore we ought to stop building new ships until you can take care of what you have.

The committee will come to order.

The bottom line here is we sit here and we talk about these things forever--and we have for at least the last half-dozen years, if not longer.

If we were to build vessels in the United States--for example, oilers and LNG vessels--we might have more competition in our shipyards, with a reduced price to the U.S. Navy for its kinetic vessels.

There is one at hand. It would simply require that a small percentage of our exported oil and gas be on American-built ships.

I, frankly, think AB-5 was the right thing to do in clarifying the difference between independent and employee, which is what it does.

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