Kelly Ayotte actually said...

"I want to thank all the witnesses who are here, for your testimony and for your leadership, for your service to our country."

"These programs represent good faith efforts to maintain the readiness of the All-Volunteer Force and to help our troops and their families cope with the accumulated strain of a decade at war."

"I just wanted to also add my support for the comments that Senator Lieberman made about what I see right now as an inherent contradiction in our policy of being able to obtain the objectives that we'v..."

"Statement of Senator Ayotte"