02/11/2013
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"I urge you to be bold. I think this committee is prepared to be bold."
"Congress cannot shirk our responsibility to get our work done this year."
"Our military budget appears to be based on assumptions developed to cut the size and funding for our military, not to protect this Nation against potential future threats."
"I believe this is the most uncertain I have seen the national security environment in my nearly 40 years of service."