US defense budget: Sound, but sequestration "a totally different ballgame" January 26, 2012

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Complete video at: http://fora.tv/series/monitor_breakfast

After decrying Mitt Romney's analysis of the United States' defense situation as "political" and "not born out by the facts," Sen. Carl Levin (D-Mich.), the Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, told reporters at a breakfast hosted by The Christian Science Monitor that the budget for the Department of Defense was sound -- but that if budget-reducing sequester were to take hold, it would be a "totally different ballgame."

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On Thursday, January 26, Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, joined the Monitor Breakfast for a conversation with reporters.

Carl Milton Levin is the senior United States Senator from Michigan, serving since 1979. He is the Chairman of the Senate Committee on Armed Services. He is a member of the Democratic Party. He has been Michigan's senior senator since 1995.