Jeanne Shaheen actually said...

we need to deal with sequestration and that it poses an imminent threat to our national security

One concern that they asked me about that I could not answer was why the decision seems to have been made to preposition the equipment.

I had the opportunity recently to meet in Brussels with officials from Europe and from particularly Eastern Europe and the Baltics.

They were very pleased to see our proposal to increase the European Reassurance Initiative fourfold.