Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"So my question is, in targeting resources, how would you suggest that we preserve that as a priority of the Navy?"

"I want to come back to undersea warfare that was raised by Senator Reed, because it is identified in the report as the area of our greatest asymmetric advantage right now, but only if we continue to i..."

"I think it reflects a growing sense that one of the great challenges, if not the biggest, ahead in the immediate future is our increasing confrontation with other powers, notably the Chinese and the R..."

"Will you commit to being an advocate of it? Because I think it will take advocates in a time of increasingly threatened fiscal resources and a very expensive commitment that is necessary to being an a..."