Robert C. Byrd: “What will the United States do if the so-called democracy that we're building in Iraq takes a wrong turn?”

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?

Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

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.