Robert C. Byrd: “I'm growing increasingly concerned about the continuing and possibly growing insurgency in Afghanistan.”

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.

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?