Richard Blumenthal actually said...

"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."

"I am concerned as much about the threat that North Korea poses in terms of nuclear proliferation over the long-term as the immediate tension and potential threat in the short-term."

"China is, I think de facto, the only real, so to speak, ally that North Korea would have."