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I appreciate your willingness to take this on, and I do hope you will view this as an extraordinary opportunity.

I hope that you will be a real irritant on this subject.

This may be a moment in time where the stars are literally aligned, starting with the chairman of this committee...

They have to realize that this has to be their fight.

I don't see how any American can be satisfied with the general level of defense spending among our European allies. I think it should be higher.

I think there has to be a sense of urgency. We are if not directly at war, we are certainly close to war footing on a number of fronts.

I am gravely concerned that we will miss an opportunity to preserve what we have gained in Afghanistan.

I share that position [to support additional arms to Ukraine].

When you have huge agencies like HUD that are responsible for doing good things for the American people, but abuse and misuse taxpayer dollars...

It is going to cost American lives.

I hope you all can help us get rid of the sequester, please.

But all of you said in one way, shape, or form the current system is working, why change it?

The current system is it is 20 years or nothing. Isn't that correct?

But I think this is important. The way I read the math, you are not reducing their benefits.

We cannot make a mistake because it may be 10 years before it manifests itself.

A fundamental difference in the military system than in the private sector is that in the military system, you have to grow your talent.

How is that fair or appropriate? Don't we have to do something about that?

Well, you are showing $30 billion in savings. Like I said, it is not coming out of the air. It is coming from somewhere.