after that, "usa today" correspondent dennis kauchon talks about an analysis in a drop for spending for services, employee compensation and infrastructure upkeep in certain states and localities. plus your e-mails, phone calls and tweets. "washington journal" live saturday at 7:00 a.m. eastern on c-span. oh >>> army secretary john mccue testified before the house armed services committee friday on the budget request. the overall army budget request of $184.6 billion is down from 2012. but includes a 1.7% pay increase for soldiers. and a housing assistance increase of 3.9%. the total defense department 2013 budget request is $525 billion. a 1% decrease from 2012. this runs about 2 hours and 15 minutes. >> we just got notice that the role was voice voted. they were going to have a vote about 10:00. so they said final votes will be at about 10:45. so we'll get as far into it as we can, and then we'll go vote, and with your patience, we'll be back as quickly as we can. good morning. thank you for joining us today, as we consider the president's fiscal year 2013 budget for the army. general