"Like many, if not most, of our members here, I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts on the ability of the U.S. military to carry ou..."
"I believe that we can rationally evaluate our national security strategy, our defense expenditures, and the current mission sets we ask the military to undertake and come up with a strategy that requi..."
"It is also important that we address the revenue side of our budget problem. We must consider raising additional revenue."
"the Economic and Fiscal Impacts of DOD Spending on the Commonwealth of Virginia in FY 2008"
"I appreciate you holding this hearing and this series of hearings that we have had to discuss the impact of defense cuts."
"The industrial base of this country is critical to our economy and obviously defense spending is part of maintaining that industrial base."
"There are certain things that the defense budget requires in terms of technological and business capabilities that, if we are not doing it, those capabilities go away."
"I believe that increasing the amount of revenue that we have available is critical to this effort."
"You cannot look at a budget that is almost 40 percent out of whack in terms of our deficit and say that 20 percent of the budget has absolutely nothing to do with that."
"If we're going to fix this problem in the long run and avoid sequestration in the short run, I believe that we must address this from both ends--spending will have to come down, and we're going to hav..."
"Like many, if not most, of our members here, I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget caused by sequestration would have dangerous impacts on the ability of the U.S. military ..."
"Sequestration would make that rational evaluation impossible, which is why it must be avoided."