02/13/2012
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"if we are not helping the moderates, nonextremists in Syria, if we are sitting back now as Iraq becomes a sanctuary for al-Qaeda..."
"But we cannot leave. We did that once. We left the region after the Soviet withdrawal and we paid a major price for that."
"I agree with Congresswoman Harman. This is a whole-of-Government approach, and it is largely nonkinetic."
"I would just urge one more time that on a bipartisan basis you attack these problems and show the rest of the House that bipartisanship can thrive, especially when the critical interests of the United..."