Robert C. Byrd: “I am shocked by this administration's loose talk about a Marshall Plan for the Middle East.”

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

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.

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.

Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?