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One of our Nation's greatest accomplishments has been the dramatic reduction in the poverty rate among our elderly.

It's a serious threat.

Nothing gets under people's skin like this idea that there are crop subsidies going out there that don't go to farmers.

I do think there is particular interest in some of the things that you talked about, the actively-engaged rules.

On the National Guard side they are going to be gaining Black Hawks, is that correct?

But the basic idea is that the Guard would like to maintain and have its hand in this piece of the combat readiness.

I don't understand. Can you make the argument to me why a National Guard unit needs Apache helicopters?

How long does it take to bring a Guard unit up to combat readiness?

What would be the cost of leaving the National Guard as is and implementing the rest of the plan?

I commend to you, Chairman Levin, the idea of convening us as a group to talk about the solution to sequester.

It is an amazing piece of military equipment.

We're very proud of that shipyard and proud of the work that they are doing.

I think we should take our obligation to meet the caps but to deal with the sequester, as the BCA contemplated in August 2011.

Our obligation is to figure out how to replace the sequester.

I think we have to step back a moment and remind ourselves that the sequester was designed to be stupid.

What are the opportunities and risks associated with this scenario and how do you assess the likelihood that this is how the North Korean regime will eventually end?

How confident are you in the ability of South Korea, the United States, China, and other regional powers to deal with a state collapse scenario in North Korea?

You have just made the point, I think, that the Assad regime is almost wholly dependent, is it not, on the support of Russia and Iran?