Robert C. Byrd: “Well, Mr. Secretary, this is not the first war we have fought.”

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

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

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