Robert C. Byrd: “What I'm trying to get at is, I'm trying to get at what you really told the Office of Management and Budget...”

We need important changes in our great health benefit program. TRICARE, to ensure a superior benefit for the long-term.

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.