The tax preferences that are in the proposed budget outweigh the food cuts by eight to one.

I thank the gentleman. In Akron, Ohio, Summa Health Care is already implementing some of these accountable care organization methods, the medical home, and saving millions and millions of dollars because of the health care reform bill. I…

I just want to thank the gentleman because one of the issues we have in this committee... is a national narrative that there is not anything that we can invest in that is necessarily a good thing.

The President's plan responsibly replaces the sequester with even greater deficit reduction through a balanced plan that calls for shared responsibility.

We must find a bipartisan way to undo the sequester but replace it with, what I hope will be, a balanced approach to deficit reduction.

We can no longer afford to spend taxpayer resources without doing the analysis; without ensuring every dollar is efficiently and effectively invested.

No one believes an across-the-board reduction is the preferred way to get our finances in order or to take care of priorities.

It maintains our unparalleled military strength.

We agree we should just do our jobs. We know savings should be taken from this budget, that there clearly is room for savings.

There is now wide bipartisan consensus that all spending, including spending at the Pentagon, must be on the table as we figure out how to get our finances back on track.

If this Congress imposes more cuts in the defense budget, that will increase the risk and could make it impossible for us to execute the strategy we have developed.

Thank you for spending your time, this has been very enlightening.