Joe Courtney actually said...

"Shipbuilding is the long game, and that we did as a nation take a holiday."

"I appreciate your shout out to Katherine Hackett from East Haddam, Connecticut, who is really kind of an iconic story of the Great Recession."

"I give Chairman Kline all the credit in the world for moving a bill, a law that had not been changed since the Clinton Administration."

"An unfunded authorization is kind of like a get well card to somebody who is sick, it does not really fix the problem."