Sen. John McCain (R., Ariz.) criticized President Obama and Congress calling them "hypocritical" for focusing on delays at airports due to sequestration and not focusing on the deep cuts to defense which he believes is putting the U.S. at risk.
SEN. JOHN MCCAIN: "Well, I say with all due respect to my friends, it's a little bit hypocritical on the same day when all of the focus was on the delays that we have in getting through airports, the chief of staff of the United States army was saying that we are going -- if we don't reverse this, we're going to have a hollow army. We'll be unable to defend the nation, and it would take us 10 or 15 years to recover. I think we have our priorities a little bit skewed here. Look, I'm for giving the FAA flexibility, but I also want to give the military flexibility, and I don't want the sequestration cuts to be as steep as they are on national defense. We have a lot of savings we can make in national security, but right now we, in the words of the secretary of defense and our uniformed service chiefs, we're putting the security of this nation at risk."