I want to thank both of our witnesses--all three of our witnesses today, Admiral Roughead and Bryan Clark and Mr. O'Rourke, for attending today's hearing.

The Navy's force of SSNs is projected to experience a valley from the mid-2020s through the early 2030s.

I don't know if that was, you know, just an editorial comment or a question, but if anyone does want to weigh in on that, you know, you've got time.

But, again, having a standard, which just says you have got to look at the manufacturer's specifications when you are going to reuse, you know, N95 masks, that is just, like you pointed out, necessary to make sure that these workers when…

This Saturday in New London, Connecticut, there is going to be a memorial service for Elva Graveline, who was a certified nurse's aide who worked at a local hospital there, 52 years old, mother of two, grandmother of three, who succumbed…

Today we are voting on the HEROES Act, two days after the Chairman of the Federal Reserve Board, Jerome Powell very bluntly stated that the Federal Reserve has exhausted its capacity to maintain liquidity in our financial markets, and that…

Thank you, Chairman, and thank each of you for being here today and thank you for your service to our great Nation.

do you support and see value in this fund as we begin a new recapitalization effort?

Victory is the beautiful bright flower. Transport is the stem without which it could never have blossomed.

So, any delays which were reported in the reporting, I mean, the fact is, the taxpayer didn't bear the burden of any delays. Is that correct?

Well, if you are saying that it is unexecutable, that is about as much clarity as we could ask for in terms of getting us to move forward.

Because that just reinforces the question of execution ability because I mean, in fact, it is a positive trend that we have been seeing with Block IV.

This budget, frankly, has kind of sent a little bit of a shock wave in terms of just their own decisions about investing in capital.

On February 10, the Department of Defense presented to Congress a Navy budget that is at odds, many of us believe, with their own stated goals of achieving a 355-ship fleet.

congratulations on really what is an historic moment here in terms of amending and enhancing the Fitzgerald Act

I don't question the ability of the industrial base to perform, as long as we have a steady and consistent demand signal.

I think that is very helpful.

I don't question your concern about the issue in terms of the risk that we are talking about, but again, Mr. Kelly did a nice job in sort of describing the workload that this fleet is carrying and I think a lot of us are concerned that we…

The Seapower and Projection Forces Subcommittee meets this afternoon to hear testimony on the Department of Air Force fiscal year 2021 budget request.

I think it is time to slow down ordering and delivery of deficient KC-46A aircraft and to retain adequate legacy tankers.

I think a lot of us feel very strongly that based on other incidents that have happened in the Navy's C-130 fleet where you had loss of life because of propeller malfunction that this really is a safety issue.

Thank you, Mr. Wittman.

This is a punch in the gut to shipyard workers, the metal trades who are making life commitments.

Article 10 section 231 of the U.S. Code says that when a budget comes over from the Department of Defense it shall--shall--be accompanied by a 30-year shipbuilding plan.

This budget fails the test in terms of the National Defense Strategy which is focused on our near-peer competitors.