Robert C. Byrd: “The American people have never had any debate with respect to what we have to do, as has been outlined here.”

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

What does it say about the state of our relations with all of these countries of the coalition of the willing, when, 2 years into the war against Iraq, the United States has to create a new foreign aid program to repay these countries for…