Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"I deeply appreciate both of your views on both submarines and the JSF because I strongly share the commitment to those programs."

"I want to turn now to an area that I think is very important to our national security: our submarine building program."

"the urgency of that recommendation is all the more prescient now in the world with the increased building of those submarines by other countries."

"My hope is that sequestration has no effect on the submarine program, because I think it ought to be clearly excepted from any of those cuts."