"Are you saying without a BRAC process, you cannot get that detail?"
"I want to make sure that we are investing in that sufficiently."
"The 18 percent excess infrastructure that the Army has, what force size is that based on, or is it directly correlated?"
"if you get a 10 percent reduction in the cost of each ship in a 12-boat program, then you are getting a little bit more than one of the 12 boats in that program for, quote, unquote, 'free.'"
"I think we owe that to our service members. I think we owe that to ourselves."
"the history of cost growth in lead ship construction is one in which quite often a lot of that cost growth has occurred in the final stages"
"I think it is important if we are at war to define in the clearest, most precise terms what victory looks like."
"What I am concerned about is you have just a little over a year left in this administration. And this is a very exciting, necessary, essential proposal to reform VA care."
"And it is restoring the VA to its rightful place as a leader in American health care who can set the standard and become known for excellence and figuring out problems that are fundamental to how we p..."
"I just want to begin by telling you each how encouraged I am by this report that you produced and your testimony today and your answers to our questions, and how grateful I am on behalf of the veteran..."
"Well, something just didn't add up."