Robert C. Byrd: “We ought to examine this request line by line and see if the high-minded rhetoric coming out of the White House matches…”

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

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

No, we're not talking about a lot of things; we're talking about this particular request for modularity.

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.