Robert C. Byrd: “I've heard from many families anxious to know when their deployed loved ones might return home.”

No, we're not talking about a lot of things; we're talking about this particular request for modularity.

We need important changes in our great health benefit program. TRICARE, to ensure a superior benefit for the long-term.

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

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.