I share the view that large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. military to carry out those missions we assign them.

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 going to have to fix the revenue problem.

We don't collect enough revenue to cover our expenditures.

I worry, just as Mr. Bartlett does, about my children and my grandchild right now and what they are going to wind up being the benefactors of that we do.

Large, immediate cuts to the defense budget would have substantially negative impacts to the ability of the U.S. military.

Cuts to our Nation's defense, either by eliminating programs or laying off soldiers, comes with an economic cost.

I do just want to conclude by making a special thank you to the Special Operations Command, and the Navy SEAL team in particular.

And this is something that I think DOD-wide and intelligence-community-wide we have to be engaged in.

I do want to give special recognition to Admiral Olson since he is from Tacoma.

General Mattis, you have the greatest responsibility of the commanders right now in a very, very complicated part of the world.

If you could just update us a little bit, Admiral, you know, send something to us on the record about what you have been doing with nonlethal uses of force.