Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I hope that you will support efforts to increase the funding necessary for apprenticeship and training and other such skill-enhancement programs."

"Would you agree with me that we need a better definition and a policy?"

"Would you agree with me and with others that cyber is one of the greatest threats, perhaps the greatest threat, in terms of warfare today?"

"Yet, we are cutting the funding necessary for training those workers, the welders, the pipefitters, the engineers, designers, people with real skills that are essential to our national defense."