06/17/2013
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"I'm very proud of the maintenance done at the Portsmouth Naval Shipyard, the excellent work done there on the Virginia-class submarine."
"We can't drive our national security interests, particularly on something so important as our attack submarine fleet, by just being handed a number by Congress."
"I hope that we will act immediately on a bipartisan basis in Congress to stop the sequestration, because when you think about our fleet going down to 235 that is an unacceptable risk to our country an..."
"The Navy has a requirement for 48 attack submarines?"