Steve Womack: “I thank the gentleman. Reclaiming my time, I just want to say, before I go to my next chart, that this isn't an option…”

“I thank the gentleman. Reclaiming my time, I just want to say, before I go to my next chart, that this isn't an option for us, to allow this to continue on this path without the interaction of this Congress and solutions offered by this Congress, many of which are going to be big deals because when you get this far along into a problem, the solutions to the problem get much larger. They are going to require a lot more political courage. But we have to address it because if we don't, in just a few years beyond the 2018 timeframe that this chart shows, there will be no money left for the items that you see in green and blue. And let me hasten to remind you that the items in blue are national defense.”