Mazie Hirono actually said...

"These caps already seriously challenge our ability to meet our national security needs."

"So if we do not deal with sequestration in the way we should, which is to eliminate it, would you just then decrease the number of battalions?"

"Do not sequester again. I have to join the chair and the ranking member to say that the sequestration was inherently deleterious to everything we were doing."

"Unless modified for the years after fiscal year 2016 and beyond, I believe that they will threaten our long-term national security interests."