Robert C. Byrd: “Why is the cost of operations in Afghanistan about as high today as they were during the war?”

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

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

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.