This budget, like the Senate budget, is not a balanced budget, nowhere close to being a balanced budget.
This plan is not balanced, even under the sophisticated understanding of balance propounded by the President.
You do not spend more money than you take in. That is what it means.
the consequences of sequestration if it was to occur. Now the wolf is at the door.
the mechanism of sequester which makes us cut everything in proportion is dumb from any kind of managerial point of view.
We need to deal very quickly and broadly with our deficit problems in a balanced way that the President can support and Congress can support...
we will provide that information.
sequestration will have devastating effects for national defense.
It is part of our strategy to maintain what we call, exactly as you said, light footprint presence in many parts of the world.
Wounded Warriors are a priority for the Department and will be protected above all else.
The only good solution is to detrigger sequestration and pass appropriations bills.
We need to detrigger sequestration.
The cloud of uncertainty hanging over our Nation's defense affairs is already having lasting and irreversible effects.
Rebalancing toward the Asia-Pacific region is a whole-of-government approach for the United States and a key pillar of the defense strategy.
Allies, partners, friends, and potential foes the world over need to know that we have the political will to implement the defense strategy ...
requires us to subtract from our budget for the remainder of fiscal year 2013 $46 billion.
I do not hear anybody saying, you know what, this was wrong.
Essentially because the agency has told us that you can't enforce U.S. immigration law.
