Rob Portman actually said...

I don't think I've ever heard an agency head say, including in my time at the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), that a 5 percent reduct...

We had a mutually assured destruction approach that really has dissolved now.

Clearly, since the Cold War our approach has had to change with regard to the issues you deal with every day.

Mr. Odeen, a report recently published by your group, the Defense Business Board, recommended that DOD open a dialogue with defense industry...