Robert C. Byrd: “The increased deficits produce higher interest rates, the cost of a college education, for example, will grow.”

Why has it taken nearly 2 years of fighting in Iraq before the Pentagon asked for armor for all of these supply vehicles?

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.

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

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