Robert C. Byrd: “I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.”

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?

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

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.