JOHN M. McHUGH: “Fiscal restraint for defense and fiscal largesse for everything else.”

We must have an end to sequestration this year, and we must have this budget.

The worst the thing that we can do is ask the men and women serving in our Army to perform a task that we do not equip and train them to do.

We need to stop talking and start acting. We need wisdom, not words. We need results, not rhetoric.

Ladies and gentlemen, our Army, your Army faces a dark and dangerous future unless this Congress acts now to end these ill-conceived and inflexible budget cuts.