"And you know, with us doing that we got back to this point and got past where we were last year and we are happy to be able to compete for a national championship on Monday night."

VOA: standard.2009.04.05

They argued that more than $12 billion was spent on Pakistan during the previous Bush administration with little to show for it - a point underscored by Senator Robert Menendez, a New Jersey Democrat, in this exchange with Ambassador Holbrooke.

VOA: standard.2009.05.12

"Those are the complaints that we are actually dealing with at this point in time." VOA News asked Kippen if the on-site investigations of massive ballot box stuffing and other acts of election fraud will take weeks or,as some predict, months to complete.

VOA: standard.2009.09.15