Robert C. Byrd: “I do not think it is in the people's interest of this country to rush this bill as it is being rushed.”

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

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.

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

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