This decision was not taken lightly, but with our coaching staff transition and several uncertainties regarding player availability, I felt it was not in our best interest to try to field a team that was not representative of Kansas State…

Gene Taylor of Mississippi, who's just back from touring the slick compared it to chocolate milk saying it's kind of breaking up naturally and said people shouldn't be scared.

That is a bad deal. That is a terrible deal for the taxpayer, and quite frankly, I believe something is rotten there.

Mr. Chairman, with your permission, I am going to yield my time to Mr. Kissell and take his when his is due.

I think again it is whether it is on paying too much for ships or aircraft or taking things that are of substantial value and selling it for less than they are worth, we have got to do a better job.

I would certainly hope that someone is going to take the time to make sure that what we get should it be sold is at a fair price to the taxpayers.

it really does gripe me that when the Block 1 cruisers were retired at less than 20 years, that was a terrible waste of the taxpayers' resource.

it just doesn't make sense to retire something at 18 years, particularly with the LCS being as late as it is.

I am hard over that the next generation of cruisers should be nuclear-powered for a lot of reasons.

Someone needs some oversight.

I need to know that, because I would certainly like to address it in this year's authorization bill so that kind of mistake isn't made again.