It is not ideal. Iran is a nasty country. But at times, we have common interests.

Today I am introducing a bipartisan bill to make the process of siting natural gas pipelines fairer and more transparent. For some time now, I have been listening to Virginians with passionate views on the proposed Atlantic Coast and…

Russia is our chief nation-state adversary.

I appreciate that. That is very important.

We cannot just do that on our own, correct?

It is better for the Government of the United States to be shut down.

it may be time for a 'good shutdown in September.'

I am going to vote against anybody for a budget and management position who cannot repudiate the notion that shutting the Government down is a very, very bad thing.

I think any shutdown of the Government of the United States is a horrible thing.

You want to be at the Office of Management and Budget, but you will not tell me that shutdown is a bad thing.

I do not see anything in here about the Government that is good.

I do not think the Government should be shut down, of this Nation, for a week, for a month, for a year, for an hour, for a second.

I hope when you are designing, testing, and developing the manufacturing that modularization is part of the concept so that we do not have to build new platforms as technology changes.

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

If I could ask just one more question, Mr. Chair. Did the open systems architecture create security challenges of, you know, easier to hack?

We have training ranges that we use heavily, Navy and Marines, in Virginia and North Carolina.

We do not want to be bringing marines ashore in a vulnerable vehicle given development of offensive capability.

That is exciting and something that we focus on a little bit in the Readiness Subcommittee too, and we will continue to ask questions about that.

My only request is to consider slowing the multiyear down maybe 6 months in order to start construction on the first Flight III before we buy 10 ships.

It allows interoperability among a number of different platforms.

I am very much in favor of multiyear contracts for all the reasons you have stated: taxpayer savings, better for the industrial base.

today I am introducing legislation to authorize a game-changing scale of investment in making America's infrastructure more resilient to natural disasters. The BUILD Resilience Act would build on the National Disaster Resilience…

90 percent of the deterrent power of this buildup could be achieved in the first year.

Last week, the CNO, Admiral Richardson, released a white paper titled 'The Future Navy,' and his conclusion was this...

If we fail to grow the Navy with the highly capable ships that will be necessary to operate in the kinds of environments they are going to face, we are going to undermine the security assurances we provide to our allies, and that will…