Ray Mabus: “The Navy and the Marine Corps play critical roles in our Nation's service: fighting America's wars, projecting power…”

The civilian workforce writ large, we would not have a fleet to put to sea without those civilians.

It is important because it makes us better warfighters. It is important because it takes fuel away as a weapon to be used against us.

I think cutting off all Russian energy revenues is incredibly important.

It is an example, Senator, of when you miss a year building a ship, because we missed some years--we only built one submarine instead of two--you just do not make that up.