if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strategy, that they should not be made, then we also have an oblig...
But, I do believe that we can rationally evaluate our national security strategy, our defense expenditures, and the curr...
I hope the witnesses here today and at future hearings can help us think through our national security strategy and pote...
I share with my colleagues on the other side of the aisle the concern that large, immediate, across-the-board cuts to th...
If there is one iron law of American history, it is that those cuts have made future wars more likely.
I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our nat...
I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form ou...
The U.S. military is the modern era's greatest champion of life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
We have to begin to confront that inconsistency if we, as policymakers, are going to have the political space to make th...
I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the abili...
It is my belief that we are going to have to fix this problem from both ends--spending will have to come down, and we're...