John Murtha: “He's confusing progress with optimism.”

Let me tell you, we have added, we have added all kinds of money for body armor, for paint, for the gentleman from Ohio, predecessors, one of your predecessors was always looking for new ways, new developments. Small business has been the…

Every one of these earmarks are competitively granted under the regulations of the Defense Department. We depend on them to competitively check them over, and they do.

In this particular case we are looking for is sensors to protect against the type of thing that happened in Yemen with the USS Cole. We have a lot of people working on this, and we hope that we will be able to develop a system that will…

I don't represent Sherwin-Williams. I don't know what paint company you represent, but we know they are a very qualified contractor.