We should sit down and come to an agreement to prevent the sequestration not only for our national security but for the benefit of the men and women who are serving this Nation.
This is really a disconnect, the likes of which I have never seen before.
It is disgraceful to treat the men and women in the military... to be subjected to this kind of day-to-day kind of uncer...
I believe our witnesses would agree that this can have a long-term effect on retention.
So for you to testify that our posture did not allow a rapid response--our posture was not there because we didn't take ...
It's been an honor to have known you and I appreciate your leadership of DOD.
We positioned our forces in a way that was informed by and consistent with available threat estimates.
There was a message sent, an urgent message sent back to the State Department on August 15.
I begged you, Secretary Panetta, for example, to send a hospital ship over there to help treat their 30,000 wounded.
Our military was appropriately responsive, even though 7 hours passed and two Americans died.
Did you support the recommendation by then Secretary of State Clinton, and then head of the Central Intelligence Agency ...