Mazie Hirono actually said...

"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."

"I am concerned that sequestration could disproportionately impact the Marine Corps on everything from modernization to readiness."

"As Commandant of the Marine Corps General Joseph Dunford recently said, there is an amphibious ship and connector capability gap that we must deal with if we are to revitalize amphibious forces and me..."

"The fiscal uncertainty that we have been operating under for too many years has resulted in a chronic and increasingly dangerous disconnect between strategy, military requirements, budget estimates, a..."