03/13/2012
https://www.congress.gov...
"the administration was surprised by the threat from North Korea--prompting the March 2013 decision to add back the 14 GBIs in Alaska, which DOD cancelled in 2009."
"We remain on an unsustainable debt course, and one major reason for that is the lack of honesty in evaluating the cost of new spending programs and the benefits, which are exaggerated."
"half of the cuts fall on one-sixth of the Federal budget. That is the Defense Department."
"It is not so lovely for us, really. But it is true--"