I think it is very important that we address these maintenance needs.

The investigation determined the primary casual factor of the mishap was an unnoticed fatigue crack on a propeller blade.

I want to thank my colleagues Senator Brown, Senator Tester, most importantly, Senator Gillibrand, and our good friend Senator Isakson. Senator Isakson and Senator Gillibrand and I worked together closely on this issue when I was the…

I think we need to figure out a way to assure greater accountability in this system.

I want to express my strong support for the bipartisan resolution--54--that is before us today. The strong, bipartisan support we are seeing on the floor--most recently from my colleague Senator Lee of Utah--shows how necessary and…

So we need action now to address the backlog that is bad for our national security and the harmful impact on our industrial base.

consumers demand and deserve vigorous enforcement from the FTC.

I was very pleased, Secretary Geurts and Admiral Merz, to see in your written testimony that the Columbia-class program remains the Navy's number-one acquisition priority and is on track to start construction at the beginning of fiscal…

And possibly illegal.

Actions Needed to Address Costly Maintenance Delays Facing the Attack Submarine Fleet.

I think that strategic change in direction will be welcome to everybody on this Committee because we are all concerned about the maintenance backlogs that have occurred, which pose a danger to our national security as well as our fiscal…

I think part of the concern is those are not authorities to police the First Amendment itself.

The Navy intends to execute all the workload programmed at the Naval Ship Yards, with no availabilities moving from the public to the private sector.

I've actually called it--and others on the committee, as well--an act of war.

Good outcomes for consumers take time and money, especially where the target of the investigation is a large, well-financed corporation.

I think you have an obligation to tell us when you think this investigation will be done.

I have been frustrated that there has been no cost to Facebook for catastrophic failure to protect consumers.

CBO released a report in September titled, 'Comparing the Costs of Submarine Maintenance at Public and Private Shipyards,' and found private shipyards, on average, were less expensive than public shipyards.

Congress has long empowered and directed the Federal Trade Commission to enforce the tools it has now, not to mention new ones that we may give it in such a privacy law.

A 26-million-dollar settlement, that's not a nickel-and-dime. It's an all-time case.

I will be very blunt. First, thank you all for your service, but thank you for recognizing, as I hope you will, that all too often the FTC has fallen short of that empower/enforcement trust.

The American people really deserve to know more about these ongoing investigations.

I think, you know, that we're expecting you to use the full range of your authority--consumer protection, antitrust--and they're both really--and deceptive and misleading practices that affect consumers and antitrust affects consumers.

I want to again, by the way, in all seriousness, thank Senator Moran for his leadership here.

I am sure that you have read repeatedly and carefully the GAO report entitled, 'Actions Needed To Address Costly Maintenance Delays Facing the Attack Submarine Fleet.'