"I have to tell you, that hurts to hear it referred to--to me, a slush fund is something that would be used to spend money unnecessarily or wastefully."
"It is always great to have you here. Always look forward to your testimony."
"We need to be careful, that the message that we are sending is anything but that which would become a combat multiplier."
"What concerns should we have about what our capability is in the eastern part of Europe given what is going on in the Ukraine and the potential for Russia to step up more of this aggressive nature tha..."
"Seems to me that over time, we hear all of these time frames, in 6 months, in 1 year, and this has been going on multiple years, so forgive me for being a bit skeptical about some of this."
"If our goal is to convince the American public that we are going to achieve some kind of fiscal sanity...only on the discretionary side of the budget, the public is going to be terribly misled."
"I am a big believer that the sequestration is a mindless approach, a lazy man's way to effect some kind of budgeting outcome."
"But if you could conclude, and I am not trying to speculate that that is a conclusion that you would come up with, but if one could reasonably conclude that this is a form of activism that is being us..."
"We are not going to appreciably change the trajectory of the course we are on right now unless and until we deal with the mandatory side of spending."
"Why did it take sequestration to force the Federal Government to practice efficiency?"
"I think what makes me hopeful is that there has been bipartisan agreement on that."