Tim Ryan actually said...

If we are serious about not cutting large amounts of funding from the defense budget, something else has to give.

Sequestration would have a similar impact on American workers in cutting other non-entitlement spending.

What is this doctrine that justifies a massive ground presence in Afghanistan? How do we measure success in that theater in particular?

It is critical that we have this money that we are spending, the billions of dollars invested back into our country.