Robert C. Byrd: “DOD's request says that $10.8 billion covers the cost of sustaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan.”

I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.

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

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

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?