I look forward to working with you.
this request for an opinion did not come from the White House. It did not come from David Axelrod.
I want to thank all of our witnesses for coming to share their experience and expertise on the Worker Adjustment Retrain...
It is way too early for employers to be giving these notices.
I thank you again for inviting me to testify.
the objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat of the sequester force compromise and action.
the President called for a drawdown to 34,000 troops by the end of this year.
I am hopeful but I am not optimistic that we are going to avoid this.
And obviously it has a ripple effect on the workforce when you cancel repairs, you know, planning for having folks in th...
And that is our job, that is really how we fix this, not sort of finger pointing about whether or not people were doing ...
it was never the objective of Gramm-Rudman to trigger a sequester. The objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat ...
the fact is is that Congress still has more work to do in terms of the CR and its impact in terms of keeping a fleet tha...
that really should be what we are focused on.
I personally think at this point we need to stop torturing the discretionary portion of the budget.
Nobody wants the sequester. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
I have a concern about that.
We can't continue to run a trillion-dollar deficit every year and not have it impact every aspect of our society.
this is not stuff that, you know, again, you can just sort of eat with a flat line from last year's CR.
