In your opinion, will the Army's share of a residual force of 35,000-50,000 in Iraq continue to be a significant strain on the Army's ability to restore their balance?

I think it is--those that have met Eric understand the challenges he has gone through.

I think that when you have a population that entrusts you with the issues that are of great importance to them, when you have one that I think is a constitutional question, I think you have to go above and beyond to sell to the members why…

Is there a significant difference between the word 'may' and 'shall' from a legal standpoint?

General Chiarelli, are you concerned that a one-size-fits-all approach to equipping our soldiers doesn't take into account the drastically different environments our soldiers face in a country like Afghanistan?

I will never complain to you about the volume of what we are trying to undertake in this Committee, I will assure you.

How has this expansion impacted recruit quality?

We must provide our veterans with the due process granted to every other citizen.

This assessment of our veterans is not only misguided, it is an absolute insult to every one of them.

I ask my colleagues for their support on S. 669 so that we can right what I think is a tremendous wrong.

Listen, this is not the first time I have been on this cabbage truck, and it has been in Republican Administrations and now it happens to be a Democratic Administration and the likelihood is your testimony sat at OMB, and OMB ignored the…

It is very important and possible that we will have two appropriations for VA enacted this year, the first for 2010, the second for 2011.