Kelly Ayotte actually said...

"It was reported, at the time, that your recommendations were between 14,000 to 18,000 troops. Was that accurate?"

"The recommendations that you provided, and the number that was ended up, that Senator McCain just asked you, was that number significantly below what you recommended?"

"If we get to a number that's so low that we can't protect our own troops, I'm going to be very concerned about that."

"So, we still really need to get much tougher on these arms. This is a dangerous situation..."