John F. Kerry: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman, for holding this important hearing today.”

We will do everything in our power to help you, and I think your last comment is very important.

We need to get back to building this bipartisanship in foreign policy. It is critical.

Time and again, this administration has tried to leave the American people with the impression that Iraq has well over 100,000 fully trained, fully competent military police and personnel. And that is simply not true.

I apologize very much for being late. I expected to be on time, but I was meeting with some of the families, military families of kids who were in Iraq