Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The mission of rescuing our warfighters in peril is one of predominant urgency."

"Would you agree that rescission of that one would send a message about the stability and the new era that we're entering to our National Guard and Reserve?"

"shouldn't we be closing or eliminating that excess capacity before we talk about another round of BRAC, which, in many ways, has been extraordinarily costly?"

"The 30-year-old helicopters that now do that mission have to be replaced, do they not?"