I'm convinced that they are with me on this issue.

But it doesn't provide justice here for the taxpayers, and I would ask the taxpayers what they think.

We can make that excuse for almost anything we spend money on, no matter how ridiculous it might be.

But have your people look at that, and talk to your boss.

the only thing that the President is willing to take off the table is diplomacy.

On January 13, 43 Senators, Republicans and Democrats, wrote a letter to President Bush urging him to seek more funds for food aid.

This is $5.7 billion. This is not chump change.

I do not see one dollar, not one dime, to take care of our troops and ensure that they have the tools they need to succeed when they become veterans.

It should be in the supplemental. It is an emergency.

the President said that the majority of this emergency request, and I quote, 'will ensure that our troops continue to get what they need to protect themselves and complete their mission.'

Unfortunately, this supplemental budget request fails to deliver what our troops need most.

We owe our troops more than mere gratitude for a job well done.

And if there's one thing we've got, we've got food.

I can't help but think that we would not need that much money if the $8.8 billion of Iraqi money had been accounted for.

I think we're still going to be reading news reports, like the Associated Press (AP) article that I asked about last May.

Last December, the United Nations released a report and found there were nearly 852 million chronically hungry people in the world.

The recent elections in Iraq gave the United States a unique window of opportunity to change course.

Regrettably, in the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, we have not had meaningful accountability or congressional oversight of defense contracting.