Here We Go

The Senate Armed Services Committee announced this morning that it will hold a hearing on the effects of sequestration and a yearlong continuing resolution on the Defense Department.

The hearing will be held on Tuesday, Feb. 12 -- the same day as President Obama's State of the Union Speech -- in room G-50 of the Dirksen Senate Office Building.

Here's the witness lineup, as announced by the committee:

Honorable Ashton B. Carter, Deputy Secretary of Defense;

Honorable Robert F. Hale, Under Secretary of Defense (Comptroller);

General Martin E. Dempsey, USA, Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff;

General Raymond T. Odierno, USA, Chief of Staff of the Army;

Admiral Jonathan W. Greenert, USN, Chief of Naval Operations;

General James F. Amos, USMC, Commandant of the Marine Corps;

General Mark A. Welsh III, USAF, Chief of Staff of the Air Force;

General Frank J. Grass, NGB, Chief, National Guard Bureau.