Mazie Hirono

Why can't he use it to help 800,000 people who are working women, many of them, without paychecks?

It's clear he can't justify this wall. That's why he has to take people hostage in order to get his way.

Mitch McConnell should start acting like the Senate is a separate branch of government, that Congress is a separate branch of government, and he should just bring those Senate past bills to the floor for a vote so that we can end this…

He is one of the people who can end this shutdown right now, but I don't expect him to because he has taken 800,000 people hostages.

It's never a surprise when Donald Trump does something very childish. But let's not forget who began this train wreck of an unnecessary and harmful shutdown. It's Donald Trump when he changed his mind about supporting a bill that was…

I don't think the president should be giving a state of the state, State of the Union speech so that he can for 45 minutes carry on about all the great things he has done at a time when the government shut down.

The ripple effect of all of this harm from this train wreck was started by Donald Trump who said oh, yes, I'll take responsibility for it, but of course not.

Admiral Moran, how well is the current surface ship maintenance strategy performing in terms of providing sufficient throughput and timely delivery of ships back to the Fleet in terms of meeting the requirements of the Optimized Fleet…

I think that was an important change, and I hope that Admiral Moran agrees with that, because we cannot continue to have all these waivers for the readiness of these ships before they deploy.

I think when I met with you, I was very interested in making sure that when we purchase the ships, et cetera, aircraft, that corrosion is one of the factors that we would consider in putting out the contract to begin with.

There is a concern about something called innovative accounting techniques to indicate to us that these 80 percent goals are being met.

Meanwhile, the modernization plans are proceeding. They are being implemented per our Secretary.

I am glad to hear that Pearl Harbor is one of your first shipyard focuses.

I consider this to be a major improvement after years of neglect of this important infrastructure.

I think that we do need to pay a lot more attention to these other aspects that are not specifically DOD.

So, do you suggest another commission or some other way that we can focus on a whole-of-government approach that truly includes all of these aspects?

If we're not aware of--well, we should be aware--of those aspects of their whole-of-government approach, and we're not doing very much in that regard, then we're behind the eight ball already.

If there is little or no response from the United States, doesn't this--our inaction, or little action--add to the perceived imbalance of power between the United States, vis-a-vis China and Russia?

Frankly, both China and Russia have engaged in provocative acts in the cyber arena.

I'm particularly interested in the focus on a whole-of-government approach, which we know that, particularly, China uses to their advantage.

Will the delays in the SSC program have any effect Marine Corps' ability to conduct amphibious assault operations?

Can you tell what is wrong with the contractor's effort to produce these craft on time?

Secretary Guerts, we understand there may be delays in projected deliveries of Virginia-class submarines, particularly from Newport News.

I consider this to be a major improvement after years of neglect of this important infrastructure.

Does the rest of the panel also agree that microgrids are an opportunity for us and we should be looking at how we can enable more microgrids?