The world is a different kind of world today, as everyone on this committee knows. You all travel. You go everywhere. We have new threats.

We will be coming up to Congress with a significant package of reprogramming requests.

The missile deployments the United States is making in phases one through three of the European Phased Adaptive Approach, including sites in Poland and Romania, will be able to provide coverage of all European NATO territory as planned by…

Our debt.

The President is committed to carrying out the law.

As part of the revised DOD SAPR policy, we implemented new standards for medical care providers to support victim care and enhance investigations.

There is no military necessity for a draft at this time.

Chuck Hagel, the former Republican senator from Nebraska was sworn in as secretary of defense.

A couple of quick points. One is, you mentioned that the effect of increased taxes and these possible spending reductions would have about a negative 1.5 effect...

I agree with the commentary that, going to the issue of the sequester, it is a clumsy way to do this across the board.

I also have a problem with the word entitlement for another reason, because people who have set aside savings for their entire life as a guarantee for retirement income security, as well as healthcare security, should not be stigmatized by…

I don't have any further questions, but thank you gentlemen for your service.

Exhilarating. Wonderful. Thank you for your service.

So you want to keep it as a library, that is what you are saying?

I think that this demands cooperation between the White House and the Congress to figure out how the necessary task of reducing spending takes place in a more targeted manner.

We cannot sustain our current trajectory--yet at the same time to deliver smart and effective government services.

Specifics, even if they have to be in a bit of a broad range, I understand that, but tens of billions of dollars is too broad.

The battle over Chuck Hagel's nomination is over. The Senate today confirmed the former Nebraska senator as Defense secretary. The vote was 58-41.