JOHN M. McHUGH: “I support the President-elect's views on bringing in Iraq's neighbors to help with reconstruction efforts.”

I would like to recognize and express my appreciation to the Senate as a whole for acting very expeditiously on a nomination that I think President Obama made very wisely of General Marty Dempsey as our new Chief of Staff.

We can do better by them. We feel that's our obligation and what this budget brings to the table.

You can succeed, from this day forward, in virtually every aspect of your military career, but if you fail at this--and that is leading on the issue of sexual assault--you've failed the Army.

It has been 15 years and we have had 18 reports given to Congress from the Pentagon about sexual assault.