WASHINGTON, April 3 -- Sen. Mitch McConnell issued the following press release:
U.S. Senator Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Chairman of the Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, released the following statement on the outlined President's budget request:
"Undoing the damage of chronic underinvestment in the national defense is a multi-year proposition and I welcome the president's request for significant growth in annual appropriations for the U.S. armed forces.
"As I have cautioned for years, meeting the most pressing challenges to U.S. national security will require reliable, sustained, and significant annual investment in our military strength. Budget reconciliation, for its part, can only supplement - not replace - the consistent demand ...