04/09/2014
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"What can Congress do to keep the retirement of those nine ships from happening in fiscal year 2014?"
"We know that our combatant commanders request that capability quite often for things like security cooperation and crisis response and regional deterrence."
"My concern is, where we are going; where are we going to end up with capability, especially in light of reset and needing to make sure we have that capability in an area, as we know, that is going to ..."
"How do you intend to employ these ships over the next two fiscal years, and how do you intend to use the funds that Congress has allocated if not for the purpose of modernizing these assets as Congres..."