Robert C. Byrd: “Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.”

I am equally worried that the administration has no agenda to manage what appears to be a worsening nuclear crisis in North Korea.

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.

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

Could I impose on the chairman and the ranking member just briefly? What is the current monthly cost of operations in Afghanistan, and how much of the $25 billion in this budget request is for operations in Afghanistan?