03/24/2015
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"These across-the-board cuts and reduced discretionary spending limits have had significant negative implications for readiness, operational capacity, and our military personnel and their families."
"I have worked on the Senate Budget Committee with my colleagues to provide as much sequester relief as we could find in 2014 and 2015, and I am going to keep doing it."
"If the proposals in the President's budget for fiscal year 2015 were enacted through fiscal year 2021, DOD would absorb over $700 billion (approximately 80 percent) of the original reduction of over $..."
"I am opposed to sequestration. One of the first votes I casted when I arrived here was to not let sequestration go into effect in February 2013."