12/11/2023
https://congress.gov...
"If we are truly, truly committed to providing for the men and women who serve us and providing for our national security, then we absolutely have to be willing to raise the revenue to pay for that."
"Those numbers don't add up."
"Secretary Panetta, in particular, has been very forceful on explaining how awful sequestration will be."
"The burden, the real burden of this committee, this House, and the Senate, and the President is to get rid of it one way or the other, to make sure that it doesn't happen."