I hope that your testimony today will highlight areas of greatest risk and help this committee and others in Congress make the right choices.
Everyone here, I am sure, hopes that a budget deal can be reached, eliminating the damaging effects of sequestration on critical national in...
I want to echo the chairman's comments and thanks to both Secretary McHugh and General Odierno for their outstanding leadership of the Army.
There is going to be increasing pressure to separate that legal process from the command if there is not visible progress made on protecting...
the best thing Congress could do right now is one way or the other turn off sequestration.
But this notion that somehow torturing the discretionary budget and torturing the defense budget in particular to force us to get a budget d...
Transparency doesn't, you know, buy us necessarily a pain free experience, but I think it makes it work better.
The President's budget proposal represents a responsible attempt to forge a grand bargain on the budget.
No matter how these decisions come out, it is going to be hell.
I share in your comments about the outstanding job General Dunford has done and the job that our troops have done in a very, very difficult ...
if we do, the Afghan government will never truly be sovereign, will never truly be stable and will never truly have the respect of the Afgha...