President Obama and our Congressional Democrats are increasing taxes through legislation.
The stimulus was a failure. I don't have to speculate about that.
Clearly, the President's stimulus plan failed to work, as was predicted.
Frankly, we need some legislative relief in order to get down to the numbers that we want to for----
I think we need to put a little more perspective on the costs here we are talking about.
Secretary Gates has also made it clear that he will strongly recommend the President veto any legislation that sustains the unnecessary cont...
Instead of borrowing $800 or $900 billion from the Chinese, if they were borrowing money from us, if we had such a robust Treasury, that wou...
So we are talking about the $8 to $9 billion, a billion dollars a year, and then the costs of retiring and not keeping perfectly good assets...
I do not think it does. Neither does the Secretary of Defense. Neither does the President.
Let us be clear. The only thing sustaining the C-17 program in the face of a military requirement that is and will likely remain satisfied i...
The administration appreciates that the Committee supports the President's budget request regarding the C-17 program and that it did not aut...
That's enough. That's enough.
This could lead to that kind of a situation if the appropriators continue to add C-17s in the defense appropriations bill.
Mr. Chairman, I would argue that is another point that we need to make to our colleagues. It is not just a one-time expenditure of some bill...
So we are talking about billions more. I do not know if we have any real estimate of those additional costs.
I also have a very strong impression that the C-130 is doing an incredible job since that was our primary means of transportation around the...
there is going to be every part of the Federal budget squeezed, and the defense budget will not be immune from that.
The American people must wonder whether the Obama administration is really committed to securing the border when it sues a state that is sim...
