02/26/2019
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"The Navy has leveraged the private shipyards to reduce pressure on the maintenance industrial base and has achieved success in this effort."
"Starting wage is $23 an hour. And, again, there is a really solid package in terms of retirement benefits and health."
"I believe is actually the first hearing where there has been a real central focus in terms of AUKUS and Pillar 1."
"I reiterate, as the chairman did, that it is critical that we get these proposals wrapped up and folded into NDAA and passed this year to implement those authorities."