Robert C. Byrd: “Where does the administration plan to find the additional $38 to $55 billion that is estimated to be needed for…”

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?

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.