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.
It is imperative that we focus our fiscal restraint on the driver of the debt, instead of the protector of our prosperity.
If you accept for the moment that we need to balance that budget and that we are not going to bring in any new revenue and we can't touch de...
I think the points you gentlemen make about the challenges to the Department of Defense budget and the missions we have asked our uniformed ...
But all this talk about dollars doesn't translate well into actual impacts on the force and risk to our Nation.
the proposed cuts in the defense budget are a big risk, particularly if we do not make the cuts necessary to prevent sequestration.
Our budget is 40 percent out of whack. You know, the amount of money we raise is 40 percent less than the amount of money we spend.
I remain concerned that our Nation is slipping back into the false confidence of a September 10th mindset.
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 budg...
The unintended consequence is the signal that you send to our adversaries because they measure some of our actions as our resolve, our natio...