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Risk equals young men and women's lives.

Full sequestration would take you to 420,000.

It was designed to be stupid and it succeeded brilliantly.

Are there morale issues in terms of multiple deployments, longer deployments? Is there a stress factor on your men and women?

For this year, we have met our recruiting goals.

I think if and when we do change the retirement system, we need to be very clear, right up front with the new cohorts coming in, as to what that retirement system is.

Congress has certainly had a major role in creating that situation, and I think we have to own up to that.

This is a zero-sum game that you're in, in terms of the way the budget caps work

It would help me to understand the context of this if, for the record, you guys could produce a graph.

If you really fulfilled their needs and met their requirements, we would actually need 450 ships.

If we don't have the certainty of the 10-ship buy, we end up paying more per ship and getting fewer ships.

I am very concerned that sequestration--those indiscriminate, automatic cuts--are going to kick back in in 2016 if we don't act.

I am concerned that we continue to move further away from the number of ships we actually need to protect our national security.

I have some serious concerns about the proposed way forward from a strategic global force standpoint.

I am hopeful that we can again produce a bipartisan funding bill to support our military.

I will submit my opening statement for the record. But I just want to welcome all of our witnesses

Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for calling this hearing to highlight both the human and financial costs associated with fraud in the Medicare program and to examine ways that Medicare can work with private insurers and other stakeholders to…

Well, let me just say that there was nothing that would have prevented CMS from implementing those provisions prior to the passage of the ACA.