all in support of five shutout innings of mr. kaine. giants, a fourth inning, no doubt about it.-run shot, first homer this spring and the giants going to win 5-2. world baseball classic, angel got that game face on from puerto rico against the u.s. puerto rico scored all of their runs with two outs. andy gonzalez, doubles down the left field line. two runs going to score and the u.s., they would make a late charge, but they are out. puerto rico wins by a final of

mr. kaine: mr. president, i'd be happy to address that question from my -- my senior senator and good friend, senator warner. as he indicated -- and i think i can maybe say it a little bit more strongly than he could because he will be a little bit modest -- i know of many people in this body who have great experience in governance, great experience in the business sector. i do not know of anyone who has worked harder on issues of fiscal responsibility and who has a greater track record in the business world of understanding what true fiscal responsibility is than my colleague, senator warner. and i'm glad to engage in this colloquy with him. i also want to thank our chairman -- our chairwoman, senator murray, for a job well done in helping shepherd this budget through committee and to the floor, this debate, both in committee and here on the floor, that will take place the next few days will illuminate important choices that we need to make as a nation and will illuminate important differences betw

mr. kaine: thank you, mr. president. i rise in support of the work that chairwoman mikulski and the appropriations committee have done, and the place they'll bring us to on the floor of the senate this week as we take an important step forward to fix the fy 2013 budget. i will be meeting tomorrow as many legislators do during the course of the year with my governor. all of the sr-pblg delegation will be sitting -- all the virginia delegation will be sitting down with governor mcdonnell and he and the state will consider this good news as we talk about this work product. i made my first speech on the floor about two weeks ago and it was a speech that was kind of a plea, a plea to avoid the economic self-inflicted wound of sequester. as all knows, we were not able to do that at the time. there were two bills and neither of which were able to get sufficient votes to move forward. the nextgenive consequences from that sequester -- the negative consequences from that sequester have been felt in the commonwealth, whether it is

mr. kaine: thank you, mr. president. thank to my colleague senator warner. i want to pick up on one of the last points he made which is the balanced way of getting to where we all want to go. wwe want to have a growing economy, weal we want to deal with our deficit. these are challenging, complex goals. we can get there. even the action of this body last night in passing the fyn.2013 appropriations bill shows we can cooperate together and with the thousands get there. it is my hope that that will inspire us going forward. the question is this: we all agree that what has been done thus far in the area of deficit reduction equates to about $2.4 trillion of deficit reduction that has been done by the last congress, including the deal on the bush tax cuts that were made at year end. $2.4 trillion of deficit reduction over the next ten years. and all also agree that $is.8is- that $1.8 trillion was gutting expenses and a little more than $600 billion of this was revenues achieved through the year-end bush tax cut deal. so everwhelmingly what has been done thus far

mr. chairman, i noticed senator kaine and senator donnelly are here. >> i should have said the next four. >> they looked paniced a little bit. >> number five, six, seven and eight on the democratic side. i should have said the next four. it is senator manchin. >> thank you. and thank you, gentlemen. congratulations on your retirement. with that being said, general, if you would have had the flexibility, and i know there is a lot going back and forth, but if you had the flexibility and had to do the cuts, the $42.5 billion cut, would you have been able to deploy the harry s. truman on time? >> i have to know what the navy confronts, but i suspect, yes, sir. >> so much said about the amount of money that we spend in the department of defense versus other countries. either one of you have a quick scenario or oversight of the difference of our costs? they tell me the next 10, 15 developing nations of the world combined don't spend as much as we do. what is the high cost of ours, so much differently? >> i think part of is, we are the gold standard. we set the standard from weaponry and technol