John Garamendi

Just a final comment. A couple of decisions are going to have to be made by us...

If you're going to build an icebreaker, build a heavy because it can do the job of the medium as well.

Mr. O'Rourke, you argued strongly for a block buy.

The support necessary to build these icebreakers and any other thing really will come from the American economy or American manufacturers.

I am concerned about where the National Academies of Sciences is going with regard to four icebreakers.

You need four ships to do that. And that is the minimum we recommend.

I want the public to know that there is a serious error being made by the House Armed Services Committee.

These are choices that we are making.

We could make the choice to give $1.6 billion of additional money to the Coast Guard.

In your opening statement you said that the Coast Guard provides Department of Defense services.

I like the idea of a block buy because it does commit the Congress to the future.

Yes, I would appreciate that information.

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 3 Offered by Mr. Buck The Acting CHAIR. It is…

May I ask how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I have an amendment at the desk. The Acting CHAIR. The Clerk will designate the amendment. The text of the amendment is as follows: Strike section 123. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to House Resolution 440, the gentleman from California (Mr…

I demand a recorded vote. The Acting CHAIR. Pursuant to clause 6 of rule XVIII, further proceedings on the amendment offered by the gentleman from California will be postponed. Amendment No. 13 Offered by Mr. Blumenauer The Acting CHAIR…

May I ask how much time I have remaining. The Acting CHAIR. The gentleman from California has 1\1/2\ minutes remaining.

I would love to see 100 percent.

The importance of making sure that these dollars that are ultimately coming from taxpayers, Federal or State, go to create American jobs.

We will never build a high-speed train in America unless the High-Speed Rail Authority in California simply says, 'It will be American-made.'

The Buy America provisions are extraordinarily important for the continuation of support for this project.

As I have committed to you and I commit here today to your colleagues, we will not seek waivers from those provisions unless we get to the most extraordinary circumstance that we have plumbed the depths throughout our economy to create…

The high-speed rail program is under construction, it is having dramatic effects immediately in California in an area that has suffered historic underinvestment in our State.

I believe that we can, that America can afford survival, yes, sir.

So we cannot decide we are only going to upgrade the nuclear, we are only going to upgrade the Navy, because the enemy will move against our weak area.