John McCain actually said...

"It would not help you any if we slashed the spending for the State Department."

"While I believe that we should pursue and exhaust every diplomatic option to bring the North Korean regime to the negotiating table, those options are somewhat limited."

"Sequestration will further limit the ability of the services to provide any resources to us."

"If we want to be far more effective, you would need the assets in order to do that."