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On the recordJuly 31, 2013
Decline is a choice, and I believe this new plan willingly chooses to continue the slow, painful decline of robust American Seapower.
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Rob Wittman
Republican · Virginia

Editor's note · Context

Wittman criticizes the shipbuilding plan for leading to a decline in naval power.

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