James M. Talent: “It is about $49 billion in extra maintenance costs because the roads are not good.”

We do a lousy job of orientation on National security issues in general for new Members coming into this body.

And one worst thing than what we are going through would be if we end up going through it for nothing. And that's what's going to happen if we pull out. I do believe that we can continue to make progress in training up the Iraqi army. And…

I think if we don't do that, then the other things that you are working on legislatively--as important as they are, are likely to fail in execution.

What we are seeing here is, when we have, as in New York, unified authority which sets priorities, we have good use of dollars.