Joe Courtney actually said...

"we just don't lose that, you know, incredibly important edge that our country has in terms of the undersea domain"

"should we be looking at maybe trying to modify that proposal to, again, maximize the benefit of that modification?"

"over the last 7 or 8 years, with the help of both of our witnesses here, you know, we actually, I think, have sort of reasserted the priority of our undersea force"

"the rest of the world has not sort of stayed frozen in the post-Cold War era"