01/19/2010
https://www.congress.gov...
"The last time the Navy requested so few ships was more than 15 years ago."
"The bipartisan National Security Supplemental that the Senate passed more than 2 months ago includes more than $3 billion to bolster the submarine industrial base."
"If ever the naysayers had any doubt about the value of today's surface Navy, those doubts should be eliminated by the events of the last 6 months."
"the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard in Kittery, Maine, is the gold standard, just to get that on the record"