Don Bacon: “Obviously, we were on first base of that discussion. That's where we should -- we don't (ph) want to be farther than…”

I think most Americans are feeling the pain at the grocery store and the gas.

We have a moral obligation to those we have served with in Afghanistan, who serve by our side, helping us out. We had a promise, and a promises made should be promises kept. Absolutely.

The go-it-alone approach fails us in the end

I think it's better to acknowledge, hey, this is hard on the families, it's hard on the service members.