if we want to say to the Defense Department, you know, tell us what you need to do and then we will get you the money, t...
If you have to take these $52-billion cuts every year going outward, no flexibility in the world is really going to fund...
I can't say that I look forward to the testimony. I don't. It is not going to be pleasant.
the choices we have made in the last decade, you know, have been to, you know, dramatically cut taxes and dramatically i...
Personally, if I could do it, I would simply turn off sequestration.
It is incumbent upon Congress to come up with some sort of plan to find savings and tax increases.
Those who refuse to end sequestration have the responsibility of proposing a balanced package of revenue increases and s...
Sequestration is the classic, you know, 'boiling the frog in the water.'
if you really want to argue for more money for it, then you have to argue for less someplace else or, as I have advocate...
what the Budget Control Act did is it put everything on the discretionary budget, you know, and it put all of the cuts, ...
Ranking Member, Committee on Armed Services
We need to end sequestration.
You don't have the $52 billion that Representative Franks made you think you had.
We were pleased that, last Congress, then-Chairwoman Senator Patty Murray included many of our proposals in S. 2299, the...
Nobody here has to make a decision whether you feed your kids or not.
This hearing is surreal. It ought to be about jobs not about poverty because if everybody had a job there would not be a...
This bill is a good example of how effectively governments can work together in ways that are beneficial to the entire c...
We must ensure that the needs of our Native American communities are met.
