Robert C. Byrd

Well, I'm sure that Congress would want to be sure that there's some limitations on these monies and that this will not be a slush fund.

It is the sense of the Senate that... any request for funds for a fiscal year for an ongoing overseas military operation... should be included in the annual budget.

At Secretary Rumsfeld's confirmation hearing, I asked what he was going to do about the Pentagon's broken accounting systems.

The American people are entitled to have that light because they are footing the bill.

But how can you justify spending tens of billions of dollars on these computerized accounting systems when you do not even know how to fix what is wrong with those systems that we are pouring money into?

General Myers, earlier you stated that there is no way that we can militarily win or lose in Iraq.

So how many troops are currently affected by the stop-loss order?

The administration is in the midst of a massive rotation of forces in Iraq.

But does the administration include costs for this mission in its budget? The answer is no, right?

It is increasingly clear that the Bush administration has no idea of when to start to bring American soldiers home from Iraq.

The American people are entitled to know before the election, not after the election, what at least the estimated costs of these continuing wars are to the American people in dollars as well as in lives, as well as with regard to the…

The Bush Administration's distortion and sabotage of science.