Ranking Member, Committee on Armed Services
what the Budget Control Act did is it put everything on the discretionary budget, you know, and it put all of the cuts, ...
if you really want to argue for more money for it, then you have to argue for less someplace else or, as I have advocate...
Sequestration is the classic, you know, 'boiling the frog in the water.'
It is incumbent upon Congress to come up with some sort of plan to find savings and tax increases.
Personally, if I could do it, I would simply turn off sequestration.
the choices we have made in the last decade, you know, have been to, you know, dramatically cut taxes and dramatically i...
I can't say that I look forward to the testimony. I don't. It is not going to be pleasant.
if Congress does not act, if we don't do something to shut off sequestration, we have a very bleak future in terms of ou...
if we want to say to the Defense Department, you know, tell us what you need to do and then we will get you the money, t...
the impacts of those cuts are deep and devastating and would fundamentally alter our commitments to the world and our co...