04/29/2014
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"A recent study sanctioned by the Coast Guard, named the 'High Latitude Study', calls for a minimum of three heavy polar icebreakers and a minimum of three medium polar icebreakers."
"We just cannot patrol waters--we are not patrolling waters within just 15 miles, as you know, of our coastline."
"I do hope that as we leave this field hearing this morning, not only Senator Landrieu gets a little bit deeper appreciation of the role that the Coast Guard is playing."
"I have to just say for the record, it is shocking to see the technology that the drug cartels have."