Susan Collins actually said...

I am concerned that we continue to move further away from the number of ships we actually need to protect our national security.

If you really fulfilled their needs and met their requirements, we would actually need 450 ships.

I am hopeful that we can again produce a bipartisan funding bill to support our military.

I am very concerned that sequestration--those indiscriminate, automatic cuts--are going to kick back in in 2016 if we don't act.