Roland Burris: “We need to have everyone counted and my assessment of that is that there is a way of doing it.”

Although we do not always agree, as the debate on this floor will often show, I am always struck by the passion that drives each and every Senator to stand in this singular place in the world and to speak their mind. It is this passion…

I do not have much longer in the Senate, but we ought to look at these private contractors.

Let us not abandon those men and women.

In July 2011 we believe--I am comfortable it is his intent we start to reduce the overall number of U.S. forces in Afghanistan.