I think we can be supportive of the new tools that it gave to CMS, the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, to use in the fight against fraud.

I thank the Senator from Louisiana, who has been the sparkplug behind this bill. As a result of her hard work, there are a lot of people in Florida who will be saved unconscionable increases. Again, my thanks to the Senator from Louisiana.

Regardless of U.S. presence in 2015, the ALP is critical to the professionalization of the ANSF.

General Dunford, in its recent report to Congress, the Special Inspector General for Afghan Reconstruction cited an abuse of the system from an unidentified contractor who billed for 'multiple classes at one site that could have been…

General Dunford, can you provide recommendations for addressing these concerns in future contracts?

With the strategic partnership between the United States and Afghanistan reinforced with a BSA, I am confident the bulk of our residual force would return home by the end of 2016.

The ALP is fundamental to the professionalization of the ANSF.

we try to make it work even better by taking the politics out of the selection.

this is a process that works. And it is a process that sets us, the United States, apart from so many other judiciaries around the world.

Our agreement with the White House is that the President will select from among the three that the two of us send to him.

How can you deploy those forces in a way that you're meeting these expanding threats?