Robert C. Byrd: “We will not all agree in the final analysis, but every Senator, I believe, will search his heart, his conscience, and…”

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

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

Doesn't this send a signal to the Iraqi people and to the American people that the United States intends to have a large permanent presence there?