I think the undersecretary got it right. The fact of the matter is, is that procurement for programs like submarines, which take 5 years to build, or aircraft carriers, which from ...
the objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat of the sequester force compromise and action.
I personally think at this point we need to stop torturing the discretionary portion of the budget.
Nobody wants the sequester. It doesn't make any sense whatsoever.
I have a concern about that.
We can't continue to run a trillion-dollar deficit every year and not have it impact every aspect of our society.
this is not stuff that, you know, again, you can just sort of eat with a flat line from last year's CR.
And obviously it has a ripple effect on the workforce when you cancel repairs, you know, planning for having folks in th...
And that is our job, that is really how we fix this, not sort of finger pointing about whether or not people were doing ...
it was never the objective of Gramm-Rudman to trigger a sequester. The objective of Gramm-Rudman was to have the threat ...
the fact is is that Congress still has more work to do in terms of the CR and its impact in terms of keeping a fleet tha...