Robert C. Byrd: “Why has it taken more than half a year to provide this vital protective equipment to all of our troops?”

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.

I believe it was September 14, 2001, resolution might be used by the administration as a premise to attack Syria and/or Iran.

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?

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.