09/07/2011
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"I am so happy and honored to join with Chairman Hastings in supporting and cosponsoring H.R. 2231."
"Our Nation deserves better than the President's current offshore energy plan."
"The requirement is 38 amphibious ships. The Navy and the Marine Corps for several years have agreed that the 33 is a fiscally constrained requirement."
"I have always been a proponent to say that strategy needs to drive budget, not budget driving strategy."