Mike Turner

How will the CR and sequestration impact your major defense acquisition programs and will these reductions require a change in national military strategy?

How would sequestration and a year-long CR scenario impact your ability to fund weight reduction initiatives for personnel protection equipment?

A fair number of programs appear to have been able to absorb the FY13 sequestration with minimal or little immediate impact.

Does the Department have an estimate of the added costs, if any, associated with delayed development activities and procurement associated with the FY13 sequestration?

A number of programs reported delaying aspects of development and deferring or reducing testing in response to the FY13 sequestration?

Sequestration: Bad and Getting Worse.

But the bottom line is sequestration will mean a smaller Air Force, period.

I would hate to see us bottom out on the cost to operate those aircraft.

Let's provide you the report and leave this record open for you to give an opportunity in writing to answer what the statements are in the report.

Not one Democrat, not one Republican... has said that sequestration for the Department of Defense should remain intact.

Mr. Cooper made the statement that the Republicans, there are Republicans who want sequestration to continue in effect.

I hate it when people make issues partisan that are not partisan because it impedes our ability to get things done.

If I could for just a moment, and I think you have been, in your comments, you have been indicating you have not had an opportunity to fully review the report and digest or even some of you have not even seen it, correct?

The House has passed both the National Defense Authorization Act and defense appropriations, which are sitting in the Senate.

I voted against sequestration because I believed that it would happen and its effects might be devastating.

I always hate it when people make an issue partisan. Because nothing is describable or resolvable in its real effects on a partisan basis.

IMPACTS OF A CONTINUING RESOLUTION AND SEQUESTRATION ON ACQUISITION AND MODERNIZATION

One more year of sequestration would be absolutely devastating to our military.

I opposed this from the beginning because I feared that we would be right here where we are, where the President is not coming to the table with any recommendations for us to be able to find those offsets.

The President's sequestration was intended to be a process by which the President would seek, with Congress, alternative offsets so that defense would not bear the brunt of these cuts.

I do want to acknowledge Mr. Ryan's dedication and just hard work on this.

Despite the assurances that Treasury's role, as well as the Presidential task force for the auto industry, was purely advisory, ... played a direct role in GM's decisions and operations up to and through bankruptcy.

These decisions were made on the basis of politics and not prudence. Those responsible need to be held accountable for their actions.

You know, they are looking at sequestration stopping in 2014 because the President has no proposal on the table, no leadership whatsoever on----

Which currently is subject to sequestration.