I would like the opportunity to pursue that at the subcommittee level.

we need to get back to the goal of a 2-to-1 rotational cycle for our troops.

These 15-month deployments are going to wreck the Army.

strategic dispersion of the fleet may have made sense during the Cold War, but there is no sound national-security reason for doing so today

The risk is always there, Senator.

Timely responses to questions from people appearing before this committee are an essential function of what we do up here.

But this does impact on the question of Iran's motivation in taking certain actions.

I think that he is the right individual for this job.

A lot of people who wanted to move us into Iraq were openly saying that we should be on the ground in Iraq for the next 50 years.

It's a really serious issue, in terms of what we are trying to do.

I intend to support, strongly, everyone here.

There were opportunities that this administration had that were arguably overlooked that could have affected Iran's conduct in a different way.