Robert C. Byrd: “I don't think this is an unimportant question or an impossible one...”

Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.

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

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