I think we can try to set up a pilot program.
it's important that we recognize the costs that are involved and that, frankly, all of us bear some responsibility to pa...
the Department has made it clear that we prefer a smaller ready force to a larger force that lacks sufficient training a...
You're dealing with a very serious deficit issue and debt issue.
the potential in cyber to be able to cripple our power grid, to be able to cripple our Government systems, to be able to...
The sequester would be entirely unacceptable.
I appreciate your leadership on this issue.
I think there has to be a greater sense of urgency with regards to the cyber potential, not only now, but in the future.
if we repeated the mistake of not paying for the war that we decide to engage in, whatever that might be, the result wou...
I think we have a responsibility, obviously, to protect the strongest military in the world, and to help defend this cou...
It is a distinct privilege and honor to have the opportunity to appear before this subcommittee of the Senate Appropriat...
that represents the potential for another Pearl Harbor, as far as the kind of attack that we could be the target of, usi...
I think I've been able to reassure our allies and partners, that we have a strategy-based approach to dealing with natio...
I recognize that there's no one in this subcommittee that wants to hollow out the force or weaken our defense structure.
this is an area of principal focus.
I come from this institution of the Congress, and I have great respect for you and for this institution.
I think it is criminal that we are not doing it.
sequestration represents a reduction of nearly 20 percent in DOD funding over the next 10 years
