Cord Byrd: “I have waited many hours here many times. I never make a fuss about it. I will just leave the floor and----”

I am anxious to see action on this issue, but I keep asking myself, are we doing the right thing for the wrong reasons, or the wrong thing for the right reasons? Either way, I cannot support proceeding at this time. The Senate is not yet…

this week, March 1 through March 7, is National Peace Corps Week. It marks the 49th anniversary of this unique and important government agency. When proposing the creation of the Peace Corps to Congress, President John F. Kennedy declared…

this afternoon we take up legislation making emergency supplemental appropriations for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and to help Americans cope with a sagging economy. One year ago, Congress sent the President a war funding supplemental…

If the administration's request for 2008 is funded in full, appropriations for military operations and other war-related activities in Iraq, Afghanistan, and elsewhere in the war on terrorism will rise to $188 billion this year and to a…