Jim Webb: “Are you aware of any new information that would lead you to differ with the Navy's previously stated assessment that the…”

When you make that determination, you should be making it in the U.S. Congress not by one individual of whichever party who happens to be the President.

I have been in a number of meetings where each of you took us to the woodshed about needing to try harder.

We do support the validity of internationally accepted Exclusive Economic Zones, those that are set out under basically agreed-upon international law.

It is imperative that the United States policy be based on a clear set of principles that everyone here at home and in the region can understand.