Robert Menendez actually said...

Chairman Dodd is a busy man these days. He is in the midst of achieving the most important reform in our health care system in a generation.

I would like to, first of all, thank Chairman Dodd and Ranking Member Shelby and Senator Vitter and their staffs for working with us to put ...

we will still be in the position that it will be our national security interest to have security and stability in Afghanistan

this dictates that we have a long-term obligation to Afghanistan