Political Quotes

“I also wanted to talk for just a minute about an area that I think is pretty important to all of us from an environmental standpoint and also from a security standpoint, and that is our reserve fleet of ships, many of which are in very bad condition, which presently are at anchor in the James River, and our great colleague, Herb Bateman, worked on this issue for many years, the idea of trying to take care of these ships in an environmentally responsible way. It requires a lot of money. It usually requires about $2.5 million per ship if you are going to scrap the ships in an American yard. You can give them to a foreign entity, but you are not really guaranteed that that entity is not just going to take the ships out and dump them, complete with PCBs and oil and other materials in the ocean, thereby creating another environmental problem.”