I just look at the numbers and I look at what we are trying to grapple with here.
I think it is something that we as a Committee and as a Congress need to have a really candid discussion about.
It is a wonderful two-way street in the sense that I think the Tribes do bring a lot, as you say, with their historic as...
I want to be specific but I want you to be general in your answer.
I suspect frankly if it ever got to the Floor, I do not have any doubt it would pass with overwhelming bipartisan suppor...
Nobody did politically on either side. I don't think the services did. And we stumbled into a really bad situation that ...
we don't deal with our entitlement crisis; we don't deal with the bigger fiscal issues in front of us.
we are also going to eliminate seven AWACS, and they are the entire Reserve capability that we have in that area.
I think you and your counterparts in the other services are making tough decisions because we haven't, as a Congress and...
I would suggest, I don't think anything is going to happen between now and November, but we need to make the tough decis...
I just think this process probably should have started a long time ago when red lines were being drawn.