05/09/2023
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"It is shameful."
"I am infuriated that we are in this situation. We are now seeing the fruits of--I do not know--25 or 30 years of disparaging Government employment, bureaucrats, and that kind of talk."
"We are going to look back and say what happened, why did we not have a ship available to go to the Gulf or whatever it was."
"The most serious threat to national security right now is the U.S. Congress, and it is shocking that we cannot do this."