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If confirmed, I will continue to work with OMB and Congress to seek the resources necessary to provide the military capabilities the defense of our Nation requires.

I believe the Department has developed a strategy that meets the challenges of the current and future security environment that both minimizes risk and complies with the fiscal constraints imposed by the Budget Control Act (BCA).

I believe strategy should drive our resource decisions, but our strategy must also be realistic and resource-informed.

I have never said that I support sequestration. I do not nor have I ever supported sequestration.

I want to make it clear that if confirmed I will make it a priority to minimize the impact of sequestration on our wounded warriors and their families.

I share the concern of our senior military leaders that the morale of the force will be affected in ways that are unpredictable if sequester goes into effect and disrupts our training, readiness, and family support programs.

A full-year Continuing Resolution and sequestration would damage our readiness, our people, and our military families.

I am deeply concerned about the significant rise in military suicides and am firmly committed to ensuring that the Department have the funds necessary to provide high-quality behavioral health care to servicemembers and their families.

The impact of sequestration combined with a year-long Continuing Resolution will present the Department with very serious funding challenges.

I share the views of the leadership of the Army and the entire Department that this is a top priority.

If confirmed, I am committed to seeing that programs that focus on resiliency and leadership education continue and are further evaluated with additional research.

The Department is doing all that it can given the complex nature of suicide and society's limited base of knowledge in this realm.

I have deep concerns about Iran's destabilizing activities and recognize the many shared interests between the United States and Azerbaijan.

However, sequestration's effects would be disastrous for the Department and would necessitate a review of the new defense strategy.

If confirmed, I will work to uphold and prioritize our security commitments in the Asia-Pacific region.

I support the administration's approach of cautious and calibrated engagement with the Burmese military through bilateral and multilateral arrangements.

If confirmed, working with the Secretary of State and other interagency counterparts, I would carefully consider any initiative that seeks to reduce tensions and facilitate a diplomatic solution to the current tensions.

I believe that we should make available to Taiwan those defense articles and defense services which enable Taiwan to maintain a sufficient self-defense capability, today and into the future.