the proposed cuts in the defense budget are a big risk, particularly if we do not make the cuts necessary to prevent sequestration.
I think the points you gentlemen make about the challenges to the Department of Defense budget and the missions we have ...
I did not support the debt ceiling agreement in large part because all of the cuts were lumped on to the non-entitlement...
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 a...
The unintended consequence is the signal that you send to our adversaries because they measure some of our actions as ou...
if we are going to be able to transition our troops home we need to make sure that there is a reliable security force le...
I hope the witnesses here today and at future hearings can help us think through our national security strategy and pote...
I think it is one of the most important challenges that we face on the Armed Services Committee and certainly in our nat...
if we feel very, very strongly that those proposed cuts are going to do irreparable harm to our national security strate...
I look forward to this discussion. I think it is the most important thing we are doing right now because it will form ou...
If there is one iron law of American history, it is that those cuts have made future wars more likely.