"The Department of Defense organic industrial base, comprised of depots, arsenals, and shipyards, is a critical part of our national security apparatus."
"The Federal money that supports the educational system, the career education training programs, require that those programs reach out to the employers in the area."
"We want happy talk to be executed, or executed to be happy talk, either way."
"The Marine Corps and the Air Force are receiving substantial new funds to the emergency appropriations for the rebuilding of some of your facilities."
"We will look at the budget and see if you are actually going to start."
"The major contractors are basically moving out of legacy and moving on to tomorrow's systems, leaving behind problems for you all to solve."
"Part of the problem that this committee has, at least this chairman has, is that there are multiple definitions of the way in which the money flows."
"Gentlemen, you should be able by now to understand where we are going here with this committee. We are going to hold you accountable to the plan."
"For all of you, you should be getting the gist of where I am going. Happy talk. I want real commitment, meaning, are you going to put the money and the effort into carrying out the plan?"
"So if we take the after event with Public Law 84-99, could we, should we apply that before the event?"
"We need to provide the kind of flexibility and new mandates for the Army Corps of Engineers and local flood control agencies to adjust to the realities of climate change and more flooding."