05/13/2014
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"In all these areas and more, we face enormous and difficult decisions."
"It's been a privilege to sit on this committee for 8 years and I've always appreciated its bipartisan tradition."
"We must honor our responsibility to our Wounded Warriors, their families, and the families of the fallen who have sacrificed everything."
"The American people must understand that this is a long, hard slog we're in in Afghanistan."