Roland Burris: “The only way we can do what we do in America is because these people have done what they have done for us, and we have…”

Have our personnel received adequate training?

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.

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.