Ben Nelson: “The Army is invested in space capabilities and requires them in order to function our operating forces in theater and…”

Hard choices had to be made.

While the administration may be moving forward in anticipation of a new reduction, anything that it's doing is not intended to be unilateral.

You must feel like this: that we gave you $400 million less than you needed and now we're criticizing you for having $400 million less to deal with.

How are we going to make it work? How are we going to, over a longer strategy, make the dollars work to meet the obligations we've undertaken?