Robert C. Byrd: “The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.”

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

I believe it was September 14, 2001, resolution might be used by the administration as a premise to attack Syria and/or Iran.

Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.