Robert C. Byrd: “It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive…”

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?

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

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.