Robert C. Byrd: “Well, Mr. Secretary, I understand it may be a terrible way, but we are talking about the expenditure of the taxpayers'…”

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

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

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

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.