Robert C. Byrd: “Could you tell this committee today what the total amount is for the receipts and outlays of seized or discovered funds?”

I cannot understand why the administration chose to begin a major war knowing that our troops did not have enough body and vehicle armor.

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.

Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.