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

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

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.