In my view, the Commission should be allowed to do its job, and I recommend strongly that this provision... be taken off the table now.

It's just over and above it. That's the point.

I believe it is unfair to single out military retirees in a Federal deficit reduction effort.

Shifting the burden of the Nation's fiscal problems onto the backs of the troops is unnecessary and in my opinion, is wrong.

Again, my concern has always been--when I was serving in the Army many years ago, probably before you guys were even born, we were talking to people who were going to be reenlisting, people what were making career decisions, and it was…

My concern has always been in the readiness area.

I remain hopeful that these chips into the walls that surround money known as sequestration will end permanently.

To change that, I think, becomes a moral issue.

I am troubled when I hear we are paying the troops too much and that this is the reason we have to cut back on training, readiness, and modernization of the force.

In October 2012, when I was Ranking Member of this Committee, I released a report highlighting the Administration's systematic actions to delay the finalization of costly environmental regulations until after the 2012 presidential…

I know this Administration and I will probably never agree on the science of global warming. But we can set that aside for now and focus on perhaps the more alarming issue--the politics of the EPA's regulations.

We have al Qaeda on the run.