"The development of a National Maritime Strategy, while four years overdue, remains imperative."
"As such, we are left rudderless and drifting without a clear course of action to steer by."
"We need that report. And I am terribly impatient."
"The work of this committee in pushing back on the $300 million rescission in the food aid programs is much appreciated."
"I draw that to the attention of this committee, the interrelationship between the work of this committee and the Armed Services Committee."
"the high-speed rail is not an isolated project, he said. It fits into the highway, it fits into the airports, it fits into the ports, and all of that infrastructure."
"Which is precisely what the U.S. Congress did in the National Defense Authorization Act. It committed itself to a 330-ship Navy, to $1 trillion for the repurposing and re-upbuilding of our nuclear det..."
"My time is over. My final 15 seconds, which is not really available but if the chairman doesn't shut me up, is that the Congress this year will not complete a massive infrastructure program, but it is..."
"Yes, we should be concerned about a secure funding source, but it looks to me like, Mr. Kelly, you have secured about 80 percent of the funding necessary to complete what you now call step 1 of phase ..."
"the fundamental problem is we don't have a funding source going forward, and if we had that, things would be better but not necessarily solved."
"the House Appropriations Committee will tomorrow take up the Homeland Security appropriation bill and cut the Coast Guard by over $1 billion so that a border wall can be built"