The goal is to destroy ISIL and all they represent.

Would you consider the recommendation to the President that allowing ISIL to maintain a safe haven in Syria and to grow in capability over time is a major threat to the United States?

It's better for us to be part of that somebody than just to be the only ones doing it.

Our objective is clear. We will degrade and ultimately destroy ISIL through a comprehensive and sustained counterterrorism strategy.

If we don't do something now--we can't fix the problem alone.

If money or military might hasn't changed it, what makes you think you can change it now?

I think what the President's laid out, what I strongly support, is the right thing to do, because it is in the interest, clearly, of our country.

That can be changing. That can change continuously.

It makes no sense to me, and I can't sell it. I've tried, you can't sell this stuff. No one believes the outcome will be any different.

But, you said that they're a sovereign nation, so we don't like the outcome, but they have a process.

I appreciate that testimony. Thank you for your testimony.

The New York Times columnist, David Brooks, wrote in a different context not that long ago that the future has no lobby in Washington, DC.

I just wondered if you could talk a little bit about the efforts that you're making to create a more global, interoperable network of real-time detection of diseases and collaboration among these various countries in our response?

We need the money, that's right.

I want to thank our panel for your presence today and your work on these issues.

We all know--I have worked up here for 12 years--things happen in Congress, and, if we wait until next year...

One of the things that we know is so important about CHIP in this whole issue of 12-month continuous coverage is that the incentives are to make sure that the kids remain healthy.

We know how important it is to our future economy, frankly, that we have a healthy workforce ready to go to work.