Chris Murphy: “Any hope of a true, meaningful political opposition rebirthing in Egypt has been shattered by this decision.”

People work hard, pay their taxes, and expect their government to work for them.

I think it's careful wording that your goal will be to not shut down advisory committees. That's not a commitment.

Do you see anything wrong with the chain of events that I just articulated for you? I mean, that's an extraordinary story: an $8 million donation; two days later, a meeting of those donors with the president; an immediate phone call to the…

Congress - not the President - decides questions of war, and we cannot exercise our warmaking power or our power to appropriate or withhold funds for war without seeing it firsthand.