Do you expect us to give you $5 billion on a war plan that you have not submitted to us?

I think that the most important fact has been that Governor Deal and I always had a strong working relationship.

You expect us to approve something that you have not submitted to us?

I think we have an opportunity here to achieve what you said in your last couple of sentences...

We would be purchasing foreign-made ships for a tradition of American-built ships in the Ready Reserve?

I want to move to what is, I guess, my--I don't know, it has become an obsession, how to build ships in the United States...

Every day the Coast Guard's missions are critical to our Nation's defense.

Well, I for one await his strategy.

I suppose since the President is so intent on bilateral negotiations and he is such a good dealmaker, maybe it could be done.

We are going to need to make an argument that a wall on the Mexican border isn't going to stop immigration or the drug issue.

OMB has done its thing, and that is fine. They can suggest, but we are the ones that are actually going to write the appropriation as well as the budgets.

As you know, I have introduced a bill, H.R. 1240, which would expand the U.S.-flagged fleet by requiring a percentage of U.S. crude oil and LNG on American-flagged vessels.