the recent attacks on our troops will not alter our commitment to get this job done.

It's a crime. It's an assault. It's an attack on a servicemember.

The advanced biofuel commercialization initiative being pursued by the Departments of Navy, Agriculture and Energy will utilize the authority of the Defense Production Act Title III (DPA).

Secretary of Defense Panetta has repeatedly stated that defense sequestration, required under the Budget Control Act, would be catastrophic.

Secretary Panetta expressed his unequivocal support for the multi-year procurement plan for the DDG-51 destroyer program.

Secretary of Defense Panetta has asserted many times that the impact of these cuts would be 'devastating' and 'catastrophic'--leading to a hollow force and inflicting serious damage to our national defense.

If sequestration occurs, automatic percentage cuts are required to be applied without regard to strategy, importance or priorities, which would impact almost every program within the Department.

We live in a world of growing danger and uncertainty, where we face threats from violent extremism, nuclear proliferation, rising powers, and cyber attack.

Any amount of sexual assault is unacceptable.

We're going to change the culture and make sure that these attacks cannot be perpetrated.

Secretary Panetta described the effects as catastrophic.

One of the major initiatives we have is to diminish significantly the number of contractors that we employ and bring, where it's absolutely essential, those kinds of positions into Army payrolls.

building capacity elsewhere in the world also remains important for sharing the cost and responsibilities of global leadership.

the conflict in Afghanistan is an Afghan war, and it will be up to the Afghan forces to win it.

We do think there's value here, but this needed a major restructuring, and there is statutory language that would need to be adjusted for us to change course, and that's what we have proposed.

We need to continue to put pressure on them, whether they're in Pakistan, whether they're in Yemen, whether they're in Somalia, whether they're in North Africa.

the recent attacks on our troops 'will not alter our commitment to get this job done.'

this violence is not going to alter our commitment to get this job done