I do worry that, in some sense, waiting until there is the perfect solution means that we do not do anything.
there has to be at least a way to come back and move the market.
the only game in town was Fannie and Freddie, but at least we were able to keep a housing market.
I suspect that the gap period has led to pressure to maintain the construction schedule at the expense of efficiency and total costs.
This has been a very thoughtful and constructive hearing.
we shouldn't be making changes in the middle of a shipbuilding acquisition contract.
Will the Navy have the resilience to avoid letting the shipyard make very inefficient, expensive production decisions?
That is an interesting comment. Thank you very much.
Thank you, Senator Blumenthal.
the long-term goal for fleet size is 313 ships.
That was one of his opening questions, and I did not get to it in my response.