Tim Kaine actually said...

if every year you are losing depot workers to retirement and attrition, how are you going to be able to increase readiness if you need more ...

If more funding were available today, our top near-term priorities to restore readiness would include ship maintenance, ship operations, air...

There was no necessary linkage between spending on defense and non-defense prior to the sequestration and the budget caps.

We insist on the 50-50, and another president did as well, because we are in a BCA cap environment.