Robert C. Byrd: “The war in Iraq was not a defensive war. It was a preemptive attack.”

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

No, we're not talking about a lot of things; we're talking about this particular request for modularity.

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

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