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 appreciate you holding this hearing and this series of hearings that we have had to discuss the impact of defense cuts.
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 b...
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 nega...
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.
I would strongly urge this Congress to pass appropriations bills so that we can fund our Government in a responsible and reasonable way.
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 r...
It is imperative that we focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of the debt instead of the protector of our prosperity.
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...