Robert C. Byrd: “When Americans saw the $87 billion price tag it gave Americans sticker-shock-and-awe.”

We need important changes in our great health benefit program. TRICARE, to ensure a superior benefit for the long-term.

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.

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?

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.