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

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.

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?

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.

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