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Just last week, I visited with the superintendent of a school in southern Indiana in my district, in Salem, Indiana. She was distraught, joined by other members of her school board.

On January 16, 2014, I missed rollcall votes 22 and 23 because of district business. Had I been present, I would have voted ``yes'' on rollcall 22 and ``no'' on rollcall 23. ____________________

We've lost more young men and women to suicide than in combat last year.

I was wondering if you are a proponent, as I am, of more aggressive forensic measures...

Do you see it remaining in that neighborhood, that percentage, as we move forward?

It is part of the defense bill that we moved forward that we have a study that's coming out in February as to how to best aid our men and women who serve in the Armed Forces.

I would like to see, if you could provide me, your list of priorities, because I've been very, very concerned that the way we've been using them, and with the way priorities were lined up, we're really skewed, which has caused us…

The amount of resources you have to get the job done there, specifically aerial resources, because from all I have seen, there has been an incredible shortage of unmanned aerial vehicles and other products that are needed to find out…

I want to know your commitment to making sure that happens, that there's legislation that's going to be coming through in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA), your implementation of it, and that there's a significant, in every…

You've been an inspiration to not only marines, but to our servicemembers all over the country, and to us as well.

I think this is a critical issue. I hope you do.

We have seen a huge influx of heroin into my home State, into other States, much of it coming up across the border.

My fear is if they take a look back to our country and they can be people who can be extraordinary weapons against us.

I trust that one of your primary efforts over there will be to continue to tell whoever will be their leader how critical this is and that basically everything else, all the other efforts kind of line up with this.

In the Status of Forces Agreement (SOFA), I am sure you will continue to tell them--we talk about how many troops will remain, but if we do not have a SOFA, it completely changes the whole discussion.

One of the distressing things that happened in Iraq is so many of the real generals who were trained by you and many others were replaced by folks who, through connections or friendship or whatever, wound up in those posts.

It is obviously of a critical nature that you continue to give us your unvarnished opinion as you see, going forward, where there might be glitches, where there might be problems, what the actual numbers need to be.

The numbers are alarming, and I think it is our number one focus with respect to preserving the force.