. >> thank you vmu chaim. i'll yield myself three minutes to start. normally on our side of the aisle we're very critical of the president for spending too much. the one area in this budget where in our view he spends too much is actually defending the country over the next under the president's budget, on defense what this committee by $500 billion. that's easy to talk about that just in terms of dollarsnd i tht it into what it really means. less manpower, less capability. we'll actually reduce the number of soldiers we have by 72,000 in the next five years. we'll reduce the number of marines we have by 20,000 in the next five years. we'll retire over 200 aircraft permanently next year. over a five-year period we'll reduce the number of tactical fighter wings we have from 61 down to 54. the end of the budget have5 fews than we projected having. in that's very dangerous. in addition to will be compounded unless we responsibly deal with sequestering. the presidt agrees with that that sequester is a bad idea. order of magnitude, if that were to happen o