Gene Taylor: “I had to leave the room briefly. It was my understanding, when I left the room, that the gentleman had mentioned that…”

So if the State wished to have a ban for 12 miles from the shoreline or 12 miles out from the barrier islands, that would be within their jurisdiction under this bill?

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.

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

I think everyone on this committee was very frustrated with the attitude taken under the previous Secretary of Defense (SECDEF).