Ben Cardin actually said...

I hope to gain insight into this issue during the hearing today, because our young men and women in uniform and their families deserve to be...

I think it is just the reverse with Mr. Putin. I think he likes having a proxy of Iran in Syria.

It is beyond reasonable expectations that Syria would have traditionally free and fair elections in the near future.

I am deeply disappointed, and I share the chairman's concern, that the Department of Defense declined this committee's invitation to testify...