Roland Burris: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I will be rather brief, but I want to welcome the distinguished appointee.”

Please take care of the TSA personnel. Some of them do not have health insurance. Some of them are working part-time.

But how do you reconcile that with, we will begin to assess it?

So you could then withdraw one battalion or a squadron can go home and say, 'well, now we've started our withdrawal,' and then we halt it to see because we don't know what the conditions are?

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.