Robert C. Byrd: “At Secretary Rumsfeld's confirmation hearing, I asked what he was going to do about the Pentagon's broken accounting…”

I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

What does it say about the state of our relations with all of these countries of the coalition of the willing, when, 2 years into the war against Iraq, the United States has to create a new foreign aid program to repay these countries for…