I hope we maintain the bipartisan support that I think is witnessed by today's testimony and by what we did last year.
These programs not only help those who are at the bottom rung of our socioeconomic ladder but also they help American ag...
Money for pest detection and eradication is absolutely essential.
I think we do it better in terms of quality and yield than anyone in the world.
We have put the Afghan National Security Forces in the best possible position to be able to, at a minimum, hold, to stop...
I would hate to see us walk away--or be seen as waking away from those gains.
I encourage you, just in recognition of sort of maintaining the integrity of our effort, that we do everything we can to...
We cannot stay in Afghanistan forever for a wide variety of reasons.
We want to deny Al Qaeda the ability to return to Afghanistan and use it as a safe haven.
We cannot be a permanent crutch. We have to transition.
For the record, I mean since 1985 when sequestration was first enacted after Gramm-Rudman-Hollings, Congress never let i...