Ray Mabus: “I absolutely agree that the number-one priority ought to be readiness, and that's why we're doing the alternative fuels.”

the President said repeatedly that he would veto a budget that locked in sequestration level funding.

As the ice melts in the Arctic, our responsibilities clearly are going up.

I would never, ever, ever do anything to lower the combat readiness or the reliability of the United States military.

I think sequestration puts every program at risk. It puts everything we do at risk.