Betty McCollum actually said...

"The Department of Navy's budget request reflects the enormity of the mission that you have to protect America."

"I did support the President's budget when it came forward. It was smaller, but the President also had a lot of cost savings in it."

"We shouldn't have to spell it out, but we spelled it out."

"And then also as a person who, both as a State representative and as a Member of Congress, has been working with the Pentagon--and I will leave it at the high level up here--the Pentagon on remedial t..."