"In Great Powers Competition, strategy and budgeting go hand-in-hand. Would you support briefing the congressional defense committees on the annual Global Force Management Allocation Plan (GFMAP)?"
"I give it a D-minus. With proposing eight battle force ships, of which two are tugboats, we are going backwards, not forwards."
"In this case, President Biden is fiddling while the Navy is metaphorically burning."
"Those seven cruisers alone have more missile capacity than the entire British fleet."
"Frankly, this is a waste of time and not only is unacceptable, but is dangerous and imperils our national security."
"It is time to stop fiddling. We need to be visionary and to allow the industrial base to rightsize to deliver efficiently for our national security needs."
"I do not lay any of this blame at the feet of our witnesses today or by the stellar leadership of our subcommittee chairman or by any member of this committee."
"I think it is unfortunate and regrettable that we won't get a Future Years Defense Plan."
"it shouldn't be retiring old ships, it should be maintaining the ones that we have got in order to have that availability."
"the best case scenario--best case, if everything goes according to plan--probably 15 years."
"And today is the anniversary of the collision involving USS Fitzgerald and the loss of seven sailors."
"Sailors are not receiving adequate sleep. Sailors' fatigue poses a considerable risk to the safe and effective operation of Navy ships."