Mark Warner actually said...

We are looking at the top-line number as if it was as rational set of cuts, when in effect this was set up to be the most irrational.

We will be costing the taxpayer money under the guise of savings.

I ask you to end the austerity budgeting that led to sequestration and ultimately these furloughs.

Sequestration was set up to be so stupid that no rational group of people would ever let it happen. Yet it is happening.