"It is sometimes hard to explain to America that you are letting people go, but we still would like to hire somebody."
"We hope that the economy in the United States continues to improve and that the unemployment rate continues to go down."
"We appreciate that you serve, but in a day of an all-volunteer military, where only 1 percent of adults serve, they do not understand what a gunnery sergeant does or what an E-5 does."
"I very much applaud in the submission the focus on credentialing and training."
"Is it wise to be steady as you go if it looks like the overall----"
"Sometimes even the schizophrenia combines, so when active, major military figures say that the deficit is the number one security challenge, which we have had that testimony before us, it is challengi..."
"I kind of feel like I am in a schizophrenic world in the Senate because I go to Budget Committee meetings where a primary message is we are not cutting enough spending, and I go to Armed Services Comm..."
"I think we would all say if we looked at deficits right now, they are not what we want them to be, and we want to manage them in a significant way, but do it right, and do it consistent with obligatio..."
"I feel better having you guys on the case. I have a son in the military, and it is good to know that there are great advocates like you out there battling for him."
"I agree it would be very unwise to do this on the military side without doing it more broadly."
"When you said earlier that to means test military without programs would be discriminatory, would be, and in my view that would be wrong."
"If it was only a matter of employment law we were thinking about, you would be right."