Robert C. Byrd: “Would you supply for the record how much we are paying other countries, and what countries and how much to each, to…”

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

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.

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