Peter DeFazio actually said...

To Admiral Schultz, you used some language saying there would be targeted investments in the shoreside facilities, but with this $2 billion backlog and a reduction of 23 percent in this year's budget, how much are you going to be able to chip away at that backlog?

07/20/2021

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