Robert C. Byrd: “I have to say that I don't think we're doing the right thing tonight.”

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.

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.