"I agree with the chairman, that the cuts that we are facing in our Department of Defense budget do place national security issues at risk."
"If we go to sequestration, every line item in the defense budget, and frankly, every line item in all discretionary spending has to be cut by the exact same amount, which is, frankly, insane."
"I would strongly urge this Congress to pass appropriations bills so that we can fund our Government in a responsible and reasonable way."
"The U.S. military is the modern era's pillar of American strength and values."
"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..."
"It is imperative that we focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of the debt instead of the protector of our prosperity."
"Unless you want to cut entitlements by somewhere around a third, you have got to put revenue on the table."
"I think the importance of our national security needs is an argument for doing that."
"We need to make decisions. We need to put everything on the table and make a comprehensive decision for how to get the deficit under control long-term."
"I hope our witnesses today can help us understand the lessons we learned 10 years ago and give us recommendations about how we might avoid repeating the same mistakes."
"I did not support the debt ceiling agreement in large part because all of the cuts were lumped on to the non-entitlement portion of the budget."