Your testimony states that the Administration proposes to increase duck stamp fees to $25.

We cannot allow the Taliban to reorganize and reconstitute as they did in 2004 and 2005, regain their oppressive influence over the Afghan people, and once again provide safe haven to Al Qaeda.

But to not learn from that experience 10 years later and figure out a way to spend that money, that would be a betrayal of our job and of the job of the people in the Pentagon.

I think it is also worth pointing out that over the course of the last 10 years, I don't think there is a single person on this committee who would argue that we have done an outstanding job of efficiently and effectively spending those…

So as we hear today about various different programs and areas where we think that this budget is cutting too much, it would be most helpful--and I doubt this will happen, but I will ask for it anyway--that if, as people are making those…

sequestration is a crazy process that would do untold damage to our national defense.

I think I might be the only one I think who has had a single positive thing to say about it.

The only effective way to deal with it is to put it in this kind of package.

As we draw down over these next 5 years, we are going to be putting another 12,000 or more out, you know, bringing them back.

I have indicated my concerns about sequestration. I would just urge you to work on a bipartisan basis to develop an approach that can pass the Congress that would de-trigger sequestration.

The budget numbers that we have projected for the next 10 years and that Secretary Panetta and General Dempsey had to live under were passed by this Congress.

It was my home in the past, and I still consider it one of the good moments of my history in public service.

I was a part of going through three BRAC processes.

This is not about, you know, this is a way we can save money.

If they see that we are going to come down from 1,500 to some number in the low to middle hundreds, it does nothing but encourage our enemies and discourage our friends.

The only way the United States remains the strongest military power in the world is to keep developing new generation fighters.

We have got to change that.

It would be devastating. You take another $500 billion out of this Defense budget, the strategy I just presented you I would have to throw out the window.