Robert C. Byrd: “Power is of an encroaching nature, and it ought to be effectually restrained from passing the limits assigned to it.”

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

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.

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.