I think everybody in this room would agree that the sequestration maneuver was a tactical error made by the Congress in the Budget Control Act that blew up in our face, and we need to acknowledge it was a stupid mistake and correct it.
Mr. Rogers criticizes sequestration as a mistake and vows to rectify it.
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