James Inhofe actually said...

"General Welsh, is the Air Force considering transferring all 25 C-27s to one agency to minimize cost of operating and maintaining these aircraft?"

"The constrained fiscal environment forced us to make difficult strategic choices."

"Sequestration will result in deferring 60 aircraft and 35 engines into depot maintenance which will result in the grounding of some aircraft."

"General Welsh, the Air Force had to cut approximately $10 billion over the next 6 months of fiscal year 2013 due to sequestration."