Robert C. Byrd: “I hope that we will not be in such a rush.”

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

I fully agree and I compliment you and our ranking member.

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

Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?