the President has announced that in January 2017, all American troops will be out of Afghanistan.

The reality is, we know that Sergeant Bergdahl left his post. We know it.

There are going to be a lot of challenges. In fact, 2 weeks ago the President announced his plan to withdraw nearly all American service members from Afghanistan at the beginning of 2014, combat mission ending at the end of 2014.

The important thing to do at the very top of this is for everybody to remember why we are in Afghanistan in the first place, and that is it was a beautiful day in September and we were attacked right in the United States of America when we…

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if this was a Republican administration I would be screaming just as loudly about the decline of American leadership around the globe.

I think the failure of the United States of America to enforce the red line in Syria... has been one of the biggest foreign policy blunders.

I am a big believer that it is high time for the United States and the West to get involved and to ensure the overthrow of the Assad regime and to support the Free Syrian Army.

I believe it was an epic mistake to pull all the troops out of Iraq.

I mean it shocked me. It actually caught me way off guard.

I am a big supporter of the intentions of this program and especially its modernization.

In light of the U.S. decision to suspend exports that could strengthen the Russian military, does the U.S.

I hope in Congress we consider that when we are dealing with our budget priorities.

I want to stress a very important thing that I think gets lost in this and that is my concern of this idea that we are not hearing much of a discussion about Crimea anymore and it is almost a feeling that Crimea is just going to go to…

I think it is important just to mention on that that, again, at a time when we are looking at what is happening, I would hope the French--I understand the economic pressure and I am not here to bash the French.

I would just remind everybody in the--about the situation in Ukraine that an agreement was signed by these countries to respect the territorial integrity of a country that is now being torn apart by a nation like Russia.

I hope they will consider putting Georgia in that.

this is important that we open Yucca Mountain, follow the law, and move ahead on that.

I definitely urge you all to return to a normal order of business for the sake of everyone, including my constituents who are being impacted by the continual diversion of resources to that task force.

I see a Middle East that is on fire. I see Jordan that has the amount of refugees moving into it without jobs as would be the equivalent of Canada moving into the United States without work.

I think it is pretty much a foregone conclusion that whatever our final deal is it will have some right to enrich uranium for the Iranians despite the fact that UAE and South Korea we don't give the right to enrich uranium--some of our…

I am glad the Muslim Brotherhood is out of Egypt.

I am interested and one of the things I will be looking forward to hearing is how the pivot away from the Middle East toward Asia has gone.

Patent demand letters are often deceptive, confusing, and intimidating.

I believe that it was a dire mistake of the United States to fail to enforce the red line that the President put out.