I have a concern about that.
I personally think at this point we need to stop torturing the discretionary portion of the budget.
the President called for a drawdown to 34,000 troops by the end of this year.
the fact is, though, that the Navy has other issues here in terms of CR's impact on your O&M account, repair and mainten...
the objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat of the sequester force compromise and action.
this is not stuff that, you know, again, you can just sort of eat with a flat line from last year's CR.
And that is our job, that is really how we fix this, not sort of finger pointing about whether or not people were doing ...
And obviously it has a ripple effect on the workforce when you cancel repairs, you know, planning for having folks in th...
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.
Nobody wants the sequester. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
I am hopeful but I am not optimistic that we are going to avoid this.
We can't continue to run a trillion-dollar deficit every year and not have it impact every aspect of our society.
I think to characterize it as amnesty would be rejected by many of us who support it, the idea of earning citizenship by...
I favor a broader solution, a little bit of 'all of the above' solution around high-skilled immigration.
What I would like to see us do, as Senator Blumenthal put so well, is to embrace the enormous opportunity presented for ...
the pathway to earned citizenship is really necessary
