beautiful new virginia class submarines, the minest in the world. finally the defense bill authorizes major investments in the greatest weapon of all. it's warriors. the ndaa increases the size of the american armed forces for the first time in years and provides our military service members with the largest pay increase in eight years. now congress must finish the job by eliminating the defense sequester and passing a clean appropriations bill. it has to be perfecto. at this time of grave global threat, i urged democrats in congress to drop their shut down threats and descend clean funding and a clean funding bill