further forcereduction, immediately. and then, sequestration kicking in. i, mr. secretary, talked to you about this. i put in a bill and dealing with everything we're talking about here today, the sequestration takes it right over the top. and we're looking the reports we're hearing about the rattling going on over in iran. the new leadership inkorea. i think the world is in a very serious situation. i know, general, you told us in a meeting a couple weeks ago in your 37 years, this is the most serious you've ever seen it. so i think these are serious questions. my bill would pay for the first year of sequestration, which moves it back a year. it -- it does it with as little pain as possible through attrition decreasing the size of the federal workforce. but i'm asking you, mr. secretary, you can support, trying to fix sequestration now, instead of having all of the people that will be laid off preparation for next january? if it wouldn't be better to move ahead and fix that now? deal with it now, not wait for the december 31st deadline. and that would still give