09/14/2011
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"We hear of, you know, FAA [Federal Aviation Administration] and plane delays, but when we get to the issue of national security, the effects are much more critical."
"We could project. We could assume. We could try to imagine, but now that we are in the period of sequestration, you are actually putting pen to paper and able to give us an answer."
"Part of the problem that we have in trying to set aside sequestration is that, you know, the Department of Defense was restrained really by the Administration from giving us information about the effe..."
"Both of them state that at the sequestration numbers, that they would be unable to have confidence of success in one major conflict."