Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"The Navy intends to execute all the workload programmed at the naval shipyards with no availabilities moving from public to the private sector."

"Senator, the F-35 is an amazing piece of gear in many fronts."

"So, you would commit to shifting a number of near-term backlog maintenance availabilities to the private yards to help smooth out the workload."

"we need to do more, and do better, to support them."