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My apologies. I should have broadened the scope to be the New England congressional delegation. Thats the problem with some of my tyraids. They can be like a shotgun blast with the eyes squeezed shut.

To be honest, General Dynamics is headquartered in Virginia, which has caused John Warner no small amount of anguish, since Newport News is the states largest employer.

On a side note, do you remember when Electric Boat had to scrap the first two Seawolf hulls because they put them together with the wrong welding rods? The USS Greeneville was one of the prototypes for a lot of the Seawolf equipment, so we got some pretty good info on how things were going up there.

Yup, I remember the hull incident. The morons have been building submarines for the Navy for this long, you'd think they'd know better.

Now that Newport News and EB are building the Virginia class in tandem, the EB travel budget got obscene. They've got a commuter plane flying down to Virginia twice a day so engineers and management types can confer with the Newport News guys.

I did a project for EB in college, and several college buddies wound up working there. EB does good work, it's just inconsistent. Their workers have little crossover in terms of skills useable in the civilian sector - which is their weakness as a shipbuilder.