Robert C. Byrd: “Why is the cost of operations in Afghanistan about as high today as they were during the war?”

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

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.

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?