And it's time as a country that we have an assault weapon ban.

I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.

President Obama made the right choice, over 1 million Americans are still working today. The American auto industry is not just surviving. It is thriving. Where Mitt Romney was willing to turn his back on Akron, Dayton, and Toledo, Ohio, the president said, "I've got your back''.

I do not believe that a counterterrorism strategy all by itself, without a sufficient level of counterinsurgency, will work.

I wake up some mornings hating me too.

The fact is, Bush's war policy has failed. It's failed! Who better to say so than Jack Murtha?

We've been at war for many years in Afghanistan following 9/11. We know that we've got young men and women on the ground now. We've got our blood and treasure at stake there already.