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" U.S. Senator Amy Klobuchar today co-sponsored legislation authored by Senator Carl Levin and George Voinovich to prevent the spread of Asian Carp to the Great Lakes.

The general in charge of the war in Afghanistan said Tuesday he expects to know by this time next year whether the new troop buildup is reversing Taliban momentum and he believes he will be able to draw down forces in 2011 without asking for more.

But praise for Mr. Obama's decision needs to be qualified. Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the top U.S. commander in Afghanistan, had said he could use as many as 40,000 troops, a figure he arrived at after carefully evaluating what would be needed to accomplish the mission Mr.

Mr. Gates's prepared testimony warns of dire consequences if the Taliban 's momentum is not reversed.

WASHINGTON - America's eight-year effort to build a functional Afghan security force has been a study in slow motion, raising doubts about President Barack Obama's new plan to quickly get the nation's army and police in shape so U.S. forces can begin to leave in 18 months.

Reaction is pouring in from the beltway about President Obama's plan to send more troops to Afghanistan.

Senate Armed Service Committee Chairman Carl Levin listens as Defense Secretary Robert Gates testifies Wednesday during the committee's hearing on U.S. strategy on Afghanistan.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., appears on "Face the Nation" in Washington, Nov. 29, 2009.

Obama's three chief war managers said Wednesday that theA president'sA Afghanistan exit strategy isn't absolute.

President Obama plans to lay out a time frame for winding down the American involvement in the war in Afghanistan when he announces his decision this week to send more forces, senior administration officials said Sunday.

Elected officials from Indiana and Michigan are offering their responses to President Barack Obamaa s Afghanistan troop buildup plan, ahead of congressional hearings that begin Wednesday.

Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., appears on "Face the Nation" in Washington, Nov. 29, 2009.

While President Obama on Tuesday attempted to convince the American public that his strategy in Afghanistan would prove successful, an equal challenge lay in winning over skeptics within his own party.

Lawmakers react warily to Obama's new Afghan war strategy Washington President Barack Obama's new Afghan war strategy is drawing wary reaction from both Republicans and members of his own party on Capitol Hill.

In this Aug. 4, 2009 file photo people pass a in front of a branch of the UBS Bank in Zurich, Switzerland.

US Army soldiers assigned to the Counter-Improvised Explosive Device route clearance unit, pull security under a destroyed bridge while waiting for the arrival of a team of army engineers that will place a temporary bridge after insurgents detonated a large explosive device under the bridge, near the town of Maidan Shar, Wardak province, ...

Democratic Senator Carl Levin, who chairs the Senate Armed Forces Committee, was asked if U.S. forces would be in Afghanistan today had Osama bin Laden not slipped through American fingers in the mountains of Tora Bora at the end of 2001.

Members of Congress are turning their focus toward jobs creation in a bid to save their own, but they're running into doubts from their own party about whether another stimulus-style package can do any good.

With Republican opposition unanimous so far, the Senate debate starting Monday on a comprehensive health care bill will focus on bridging differences among the majority Democrats.

Share + Nov 29, 2009 11:23 am US/Central WASHINGTON 1 of 1 Senator Carl Levin said a war tax on higher-earning Americans is not out of the question to support a surge of troops in Afghanistan, but believed such a tax is now too late.