Joe Courtney actually said...

"And obviously it has a ripple effect on the workforce when you cancel repairs, you know, planning for having folks in the shipyards obviously takes a hit when that happens."

"And that is our job, that is really how we fix this, not sort of finger pointing about whether or not people were doing planning for the indiscriminate cuts which Secretary Carter described those I th..."

"it was never the objective of Gramm-Rudman to trigger a sequester. The objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat of the sequester force compromise and action."

"the fact is is that Congress still has more work to do in terms of the CR and its impact in terms of keeping a fleet that is ready to fulfill its mission."