Robert C. Byrd: “So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?”

Our service men and women, now more than ever, are depending on your leadership to put the military medical system on a new track.

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

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.

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?