As a Congress, we need to stop sequestration. Mindless across-the-board cuts is simply the wrong way to run a government.

We must ask ourselves where is the breaking point, and what we need to do to prevent it, how much risk is too much.

I hope that you will highlight your concerns regarding this issue in your testimony and provide more detail about where you see this trend going into the future.

Air Force modernization cannot wait for the next big uptick in defense spending.

I think this committee is well aware of these problems, but I don't think the whole Congress is.

as a Congress, we need to stop sequestration. However we put it together, whatever the agreement is, mindless across-the-board cuts is simply the wrong way to run a government.

I am encouraged by the request for the Air Force's three most important modernization programs, the KC-46A tanker, the F-35A, and the Long-Range Strike Bomber.

I don't think the whole Congress is, and I am convinced that the Nation really doesn't understand the severity of the cuts that we have been imposing.

the problems that you have described in your testimony are being caused by sequestration and by that just snap change you have to make to existing budgets.

Our charge is to provide that essential security to the American people and by doing so assure our allies.

I don't think it is any one party's fault, President, House, Senate, but all three pieces of the puzzle have got to come together.

Clearly we can cut money from the defense budget that does not jeopardize our national security.