06/01/2009
https://www.congress.gov...
"Today in Seward, Alaska, President Obama will announce new steps to accelerate the acquisition of additional icebreakers."
"It sends a message about the urgency that we're going to need to have when it comes to dealing with this."
"These icebreakers are examples of something that we need to get on line now."
"It's important that we are prepared so that whether it's for search-and-rescue missions, whether it's for national security reasons, whether it's for commercial reasons, that we have much greater capa..."