Robert C. Byrd: “It is increasingly clear that the Bush administration has no idea of when to start to bring American soldiers home from…”

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

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?

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks