Robert C. Byrd: “So you anticipate this $11 billion cost will continue?”

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

Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.

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