Robert C. Byrd: “We do not need another foreign aid budget, and we do not need another foreign relations department.”

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

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

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?

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.