Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"the shipyards are a critical national asset to America. It's one of our strengths, and that workforce is essential to us being able to build Columbia, to be able to build Virginia."

"The war on cost----as it's been called, is a common objective, here."

"Well, I agree that actions speak louder than words, and I'm glad those actions are taking place."

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