spending cuts, some of the sequester over the course of the year of 2014 and 2015. so though anticipated, this is still a significant deal. >> what about the other part here, the defense bill and, of course, the crackdown on military sex assaults? >> reporter: our understanding is that it protects the pay of the military. and how the military handles sexual assaults within the military. the administration, the white house had specifically hail this had bill was that it would give the administration additional flexibility in the words of jay carney to be able to transfer inmates at guantanamo bay, cuba, to their -- to other countries. this was one of the president's desires in an effort to try to draw down that establishment, that base that exists there in cuba right now.