However, we must ensure that the needs of the military to provide for national security and defense are not shortchanged...
The stakes are high and we must ensure that reforms are done right.
Reforms must increase accountability, improve efficiency, promote safety and ensure the highest ethical standards of emp...
These reforms will help expand American energy production in order to protect and create American jobs.
I am concerned about this GOP effort, not just for issues of public health but because I think it will adversely impact ...
I am concerned about the EPA regulations and the potential to eliminate 131 gigawatts of baseload power...
This is a job-killing effort by the GOP and an effort to hang on to some old, inefficient economic activity rather than ...
Every single one of those jobs is at risk because of this wrongheaded, archaic, backward thinking of the GOP.
Spending cuts alone are not going to put Americans back to work or put our budget back in balance.
I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our nat...
if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strate...
I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form ou...
If there is one iron law of American history, it is that those cuts have made future wars more likely.
After World War II, our Armed Forces shrank from 12 million men in 1945 to 1.4 million in 1950.
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 ...
I think it is very important that we do that, that we make it clear the impact that these cuts will have on our ability ...
So if you don't deal with those other issues, as I have said repeatedly, you wind up being the person last in line at a ...
After World War I, our Armed Forces shrank from 2.9 million men to 250,000 in 1928.