Robert C. Byrd: “But does the administration include costs for this mission in its budget? The answer is no, right?”

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

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

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?