01/30/2013
https://www.congress.gov...
"Maintaining an Army sufficiently large to generate a credible capability of defeating any threat is critical."
"75 out of the 182 recommendations, about 41 percent, are now expected to result in a negative 20-year value."
"The budget before us today is symbolic for its lack of presidential leadership necessary to overcome the unprecedented challenges facing our military."
"I opposed the one in 2005 for two reasons. One is that it was bringing down our infrastructure to an artificially low size to meet what I thought was an unacceptable force size."