Robert C. Byrd: “I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the…”

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

I am equally worried that the administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea.

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

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?