Howard P. McKeon: “It would be a real mistake to dismantle it, or nationalize it, as has been suggested in this committee in the past.”

I worry about this, especially as we consider the strategic implications of recent events on the Korean Peninsula.

The President is not blameless. His negotiators put sequestration on the table during the long fight over the debt ceiling.

None of us came to this committee, or come to this committee, with clean hands.

We are on the brink of creating a hollow force.