it is also ensuring that they have the funding needed to keep forces ready, to keep them well risk, whenouy down we do send them into harms way. right now, what congress is doing is blocking the pentagon on every suggestion of reform of efficiency that has been put forward. you can't close infrastructure because that might hurt some jobs in our district. you can't take down overhead because -- i am not even sure the reason why. you can't reform acquisition in this way or that way. they have really constrained the department's ability to operate effectively and efficiently. i just think that is a recipe for miss allocating our resources. >> the defense department wanted to eliminate the a-10's and congress said no. what is the reason? judged thatgon given the budget constraint, they have to make trade-offs. the a-10 was the least important capability going forward. congress said, you can't do that. they are keeping the program alive, but they haven't given the air force anymore money to cover that. the air force has to cut in to some other higher priority area. if you are congress, if you