Robert C. Byrd: “When can our troops expect their leave to be restored?”

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks

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

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?

It seems to me that we ought to at least bow to the Constitution as we enter into this temple of the destructive doctrine of first strike.