I just heard on the way over that the Navy has made a decision to name the DDG-120 the Senator Carl Levin, which I compliment.
We are not fully meeting our fundamental responsibility in the preamble of the Constitution to provide for the common de...
Of course a multiyear is always going to be better for the taxpayer than one at a time.
The reality is defense spending as a percentage of GDP is the lowest today that it has been in 70 years.
I just think we need some fundamental rethinking of what we are trying to do here and the threats we are trying to meet.
We had a hearing the other day on the Navy. We've got a bulge of acquisition coming.
It seems to me that we and the Congress have to really be talking about this.
If we do not likewise see that type of increase to our shipbuilding budget, then we will not be able to execute the long...
The idea is that the AAV will be used to get the marines ashore.
Yet when we are going to need it, we are going to really need it, and if it is not there, we are going to suffer the con...
There is a bill, S. 119, that I am a co-sponsor of, the Wounded Veterans Recreation Act.