http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/11/17/qdr-panel-stalls-loses-warner/ Online Defense and Acquisition Journal Thu, 09 Feb 2012 14:03:30 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 http://www.dodbuzz.com/2009/11/17/qdr-panel-stalls-loses-warner/#comment-16515 Kevin Fri, 20 Nov 2009 21:54:02 +0000 http://www.dodbuzz.com/?p=11443#comment-16515 To find someone as "effective" as Senator Warner, with our Country's largest naval base, one public shipyard, and one private shipyard with a monopoly on the Navy's largest ship class in his state, one must look no further than other Senators from defense-intensive states such as California, Washington State, or Texas to provide "objective" review and oversight. My only regret is that, in today's environment of pork barrel parochialism, Senator Warner's high degree of personal integrity will be costly to both the navy and the Great State of Virginia. To find someone as “effective” as Senator Warner, with our Country’s largest naval base, one public shipyard, and one private shipyard with a monopoly on the Navy’s largest ship class in his state, one must look no further than other Senators from defense-intensive states such as California, Washington State, or Texas to provide “objective” review and oversight. My only regret is that, in today’s environment of pork barrel parochialism, Senator Warner’s high degree of personal integrity will be costly to both the navy and the Great State of Virginia.

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