I mean, the fact is, as I think your testimony elicits today, is that when the sequestration was actually first designed in 1985, I mean, because that is really the formula that we are operating under, is the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings design…

But in terms of real savings, I mean, that is where I think, you know, holding off repair work is kind of like not getting your oil change in your car.

It just came over the newswire a few minutes ago that on Friday morning, March 1, there will be a meeting at the White House involving President Obama, the leadership of the House, Speaker Boehner, and the leadership of the Senate, Senate…

I am sort of an all-of-the-above guy in terms of a lot of the ideas that are being presented here today.

I really want to thank the chairman for holding this hearing.

It has not gone unnoticed and hopefully, some of our colleagues in other areas of jurisdiction in the house are going to take the incredible outpouring of reaction in response to Newtown as seriously as you did.

there is a loan forgiveness program for pediatric and adolescent psychiatry, which through the National Health Service Corps, which is going to expire this year

I want to echo the chair's comments about the fact that this is a team on this subcommittee.

Thank God we did it. And the program is I think performing better than even its proponents expected at the time.

We have been down this road before.

We don't need a 600-ship Navy, as we did when we faced the entire Soviet fleet, but we certainly need a good deal more than the 280 ships we have today.

Yes, in a crisis the Navy can do more with less, but for sustaining peace you cannot do more with less, you can do less with less.

We should not be the world's policeman, but we must be able to give the rest of the world the confidence to know that we are able to maintain the free flow of a global community of commerce and freedom of travel, and that we don't have…

The threat has not gotten less since that report was given to Congress.

We have obviously got to get an omnibus done to make that a reality.

I actually give you pretty high marks about the fact that the system of doing block grant, block contracts with fixed price, you know, that is firm has really I think changed behavior within industry.

the civilian workforce at the Department of Defense is probably going to be subject to some pretty heavy layoffs, which is sickening.

this request for an opinion did not come from the White House. It did not come from David Axelrod.

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 start to finish are 10 to 15 years.

The notion that that employer was obligated to have a mass blanket WARN notice, frankly, is just completely disconnected from the reality of how they hire and how they build programs that take years to complete from start to finish.

the topic of sequestration is probably the most critical facing our country in the near term.

I believe there remains bipartisan interest in both chambers of Congress to avoid these broad and indiscriminate cuts to our federal budget.

The opposite happened. You said, yes, you know WARN Act, all hands on deck. Notices went out.

I look forward to working with you.

this topic of sequestration is probably the most critical facing our country in the near term.