Robert C. Byrd: “I believe strongly in the Constitution and in the power of the purse as being vested here.”

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

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

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