"we need more money, I think, to adequately to do the job that we are being asked to do"
"So essentially I have got a choice, and under the current resources it is reform or the oversight."
"the number one overall obligation is to make sure that whatever it is that we ask the men and women in our Armed Forces to do, they are trained and equipped and ready to do it."
"I think this is going to reverse that in a huge, huge way."
"Acquisition reform has always been a challenge at the Department of Defense [DOD]."
"Smith, Hon. Adam, a Representative from Washington, Ranking Member, Committee on Armed Services."
"Sequestration obviously would have a devastating impact on the defense budget and on the discretionary budget in general."
"So first of all, yes, sequestration needs to go away. Personally I would vote to eliminate it tomorrow and be done with it."
"I think we should look at lifting it, in general."
"the best way to sum it up is our country simply wants this problem gone."
"this problem is not going away."
"the threat that we face, and ISIL is but one piece of it, is the ideological threat."