John Cornyn: “Secretary Mabus, it took the Navy more than 18 months to award the contract to dispose of the USS Saratoga. What…”

That order has been rescinded, and so that’s gone away.

the fact of the matter, it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.

It binds not only him but the Department of Justice as a whole, and so I think that satisfies my demands.

There’s nothing we could do to rein in the president when he said he likes the fund and he wishes it still exists, but the fact of the matter [is] it’s dead, and that’s all we could do under these circumstances.