My party is going to have to decide whether we are going to continue to make excuses for Tom to the detriment of Republicans seeking election.

This is a bittersweet day for me, ... I would have liked my Republican Party to be in the forefront of this issue.

[One Republican said the party would be judged on how decisively it responds to these accusations of wrongdoing and others in which leading Republicans are entangled.] What is our standard? ... The bottom line is how we handle it.

No. What I wanted you to do was do your job of coordinating,

There's another issue here - and I have some limits as to what I can say - but there's some real question as to the viability of the chemical masks, the protective gear used by our soldiers.

The bottom line is that the president made it clear we're in it for the long haul,