Patty Murray actually said...

If we are not working with the spouses and the families, we often lose a lot of the resources.

Thank you very much, Mr. Chairman, Senator Johanns this morning, and all of our colleagues, for holding this really important hearing.

last week President Obama outlined a change in strategy to increase troops in Afghanistan by an additional 30,000

We need you to be candid. If between the Congressional Budget Office and elsewhere it gets reduced from where you all think it ought to be, ...