Robert C. Byrd: “Why are our troops using their own modest pay to buy this equipment when Congress has appropriated to the Pentagon…”

Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.

No, we're not talking about a lot of things; we're talking about this particular request for modularity.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.