In your opinion, does DOD have the flexibility to advocate to the President for a decrease in the $487 billion reduction to defense budgets if our military leaders determine a significant adverse impact to national security?

I did not vote for the BCA.

It becomes very difficult to recover when you have a combination of lost time and resources.

Since there is no $487 billion mandate in part 1 of the BCA, can you explain how that number was determined?

We in Congress need to know what's at stake if the budgets proposed under sequestration are allowed to proceed.

I am worried that morale will suffer with cuts to important military family support programs.

Readiness is the aggregate result of balanced investment in the pillars of high quality people, well-trained units, functional facilities and modernized equipment.

Disrupting, delaying and cancelling contracts to maintain our equipment immediately impacts our readiness for domestic as well as combat deployments.

The readiness of our Armed Forces is at a tipping point.

I know of no other time in history when we have come potentially down this far, this fast, in the defense budget. There could be, for the first time in my career, instances where we may be asked to respond to a crisis and we will have to…

I have been told that under sequestration, your equipment resets for redeploying Army National Guard units will cease.

The problem with the current one is that the O&M accounts are under funded by $11 billion while other defense accounts are overfunded by $16 billion.