Angus King

A huge amount of excess capacity.

Listen, and once you do nuclear you have fixed your energy costs and your fuel costs.

I think one of the great mistakes we made in this country in the nuclear industry was having each plant being an individual plant with its own unique design rather than a standardized design.

Always a negative effect on morale.

Do we have any information that their morale is declining?

Are they being degraded in terms of equipment as well as finances, manpower, foreign fighters? Where are they getting their equipment?

If Baghdad isn't inclusive, then this whole enterprise is just not going to be successful.

It's not in our national interest to not be at the table, it seems to me.

It would really help, in my view, if we were members of the Law of the Sea Treaty.

I think we should be applying the same level of resources, money and personnel, to transition out of the service that we put into recruiting in.

So, you see this as an important area, that the comorbidity is a significant issue.

I want to encourage you, in the strongest possible terms, to pursue these technological advances, because time is not on our side.

I think that's important news out of this hearing that this is not a hopeless situation, that there are successful treatments.

I am going to make sure that the people of King Cove are heard.

I am not going to sit back and just hope that we do not have any more emergencies during bad weather because hope is not a policy.

At the end of the day we have to be a great manufacturer or we're going to have tremendous vulnerabilities in national security.

I think it would be very deleterious to the long-term future of our country because so much of the innovations that we're talking about have depended on these, the long-term stable investments in research and development.

We had a hearing the other day on the Navy. We've got a bulge of acquisition coming.

The idea is that the AAV will be used to get the marines ashore.

If we do not likewise see that type of increase to our shipbuilding budget, then we will not be able to execute the long-range plan.

It seems to me that we and the Congress have to really be talking about this.

Of course a multiyear is always going to be better for the taxpayer than one at a time.

We are not fully meeting our fundamental responsibility in the preamble of the Constitution to provide for the common defense.

I just think we need some fundamental rethinking of what we are trying to do here and the threats we are trying to meet.

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 consequences.