Robert C. Byrd: “Our Adjutant General, General Allen Tackett, needs help from the Pentagon, but he is not getting it.”

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 hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.

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.

I just don't believe that we're giving enough attention to the war in Afghanistan.