Carl Levin actually said...

DOD's base funding of $526 billion for fiscal year 2011 would be $23 billion below the original fiscal year 2011 request of $549 billion.

Do either of you have concerns that the joint arrangement will prove too unwieldy?

I join and concur with Senator McCain and his comments about you and your tenure here as Secretary of Defense.

I hope that we will soon, as a committee, be in a position to enact a full year appropriation at an appropriate level.