Robert C. Byrd: “we're appropriating on behalf of the American people, and it involves their treasure and their sons and daughters.”

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

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 am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.