the biggest budget priority for us strategically is Congress averting the return of sequestration
Today's security environment is dramatically different from the last 25 years, requiring new ways of investing and opera...
I have not heard that in our discussions. I'll take that back and add it.
Obviously, I'm the Secretary of Defense, so I care very deeply about the defense budget.
We are also quadrupling the European Reassurance Initiative, which allows us to do more with our NATO partners there.
I don't believe that the nuclear agreement with Iran constitutes a grand bargain of any kind or will lead to your word '...
We do need Homeland Security, we need the Intelligence, we need the State Department.
Not on my watch, and I'll bet you not on my successor's watch either, is anybody going to transfer these people.
Yes. Yes. And I think you characterized it quite well.
We're challenging our NATO partners and working with them to develop what I've called a new playbook for NATO.
I agree with everything I said then, including the need to do what we've done this past year.
I personally would prefer... that we find another place to do it in the United States.
Undersea dominance is an area of clear American dominance. We want to keep that edge.
Look, my point here is I have got your testimony. It is five pages long. It is single-spaced. There is a lot of informat...
Explain to this Committee why that would take that long. Why would it take all of those events and interventions, and, f...
this should not take more than weeks----
One of the challenges with the kind of egregious behavior here is encapsulating it in a manner that is understandable.
You do not dispute that the copay increased by----
