As a member of that select committee--and some of you may have read that I suggested that if they decided that they wanted to talk about defense costs that they would have to have somebody else serve on the committee, that I wasn't there to serve on the committee to cut defense further.

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And on top of all of this is the threat of future defense cuts that would be triggered by the budget control act's sequester mechanism in the event that the joint committee, which Frank mentioned I happen to serve on, doesn't come up with a spending reduction package that Congress can pass.

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