Robert C. Byrd: “Unless we raise the debt limits, how can the Treasury Department borrow the money to pay for the President's proposed…”

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?

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?