Susan Collins actually said...

How do you envision the U.S. Navy's capability to meet current and growing worldwide threats with less than a 300-ship Navy?

You have suggested that a more appropriate fleet size would be approximately 375 ships to meet current and future threats.

This solves the problem. For one thing, it eliminates another 15-percent cut that is scheduled to go into effect in October of next year.

Unfortunately, that is exactly right. Unbelievable though it may seem, the formula that is being used actually penalizes those agencies in o...