01/15/2014
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"Thank you, Madam Chairman."
"We hope that the economy in the United States continues to improve and that the unemployment rate continues to go down."
"I think our presence post-2014 is designed to address two conflicting issues: first, that we are not an occupying force; but second, we are not going to abandon Afghanistan."
"Yet we also, as a body, as a military, as a Congress, weigh the effect of the drone program on the civilian populations in both Afghanistan and Pakistan."