05/04/2009
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"frustrate[s] Congress' ability to fulfill its constitutional duty to perform oversight of the executive branch."
"the Arctic is key strategic terrain . . . and Russia is taking aggressive steps to increase its presence there."
"What I hope we do not hear is an accelerated plan of what we have already been doing in Afghanistan."
"We cannot address terrorist groups in Afghanistan on the ground without addressing their safe havens in Pakistan."