Joe Courtney actually said...

"The U.S. Navy and Marine Corps team must be prepared to meet new challenges as our potential adversaries rapidly improve their tactics and technologies."

"I represent southeastern Connecticut, which a few years ago we celebrated the 60th anniversary of the launch of the Nautilus."

"If the follow-on frigate can expand on the lethality and survivability further, I believe it will be exactly in line with the distributed fleet concept that our Navy leaders continue to say that we ne..."

"We cannot afford nor does it make sense to simply build highly advanced yet very expensive destroyers."