if we face a trillion dollars in cuts, if we face the loss of 30 percent of our defense budget over the next decade, we are not going to hav...
After World War II, our Armed Forces shrank from 12 million men in 1945 to 1.4 million in 1950.
If there is one iron law of American history, it is that those cuts have made future wars more likely.
I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form our national security ...
if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strategy, that they should...
I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our national security Depar...
Large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. military.
It is my belief that we are going to have to fix this problem from both ends--spending will have to come down, and we're going to have to fi...
I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. milit...
We have to begin to confront that inconsistency if we, as policymakers, are going to have the political space to make the choices that need ...
The U.S. military is the modern era's greatest champion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
I worry, just as Mr. Bartlett does, about my children and my grandchild right now and what they are going to wind up being the benefactors o...
Cuts to our Nation's defense, either by eliminating programs or laying off soldiers, comes with an economic cost.
We don't collect enough revenue to cover our expenditures.
They need food and clothing and housing and medical care. That is what AFDC was about.
the Federal Government is making it harder to create jobs in America.
What State would you suggest they go to where they could find a program that would meet the needs of a middle-class couple that is being cru...
I ask unanimous consent that an article from today's Politico, September 8, by Joe Stiglitz, called 'All Roads Won't Lead to Economic Downfa...
