Robert C. Byrd: “to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.”

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

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

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