JOHN M. McHUGH: “Our strategic objective is a stable and secure Afghanistan in which Al Qaeda and the network of insurgent groups…”

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.

When we have called on you for help, you have always been there.

Ladies and gentlemen, our Army, your Army faces a dark and dangerous future unless this Congress acts now to end these ill-conceived and inflexible budget cuts.

Sequestration is not in the best interest of our national security.