Robert C. Byrd: “Tonight, I hope that the President will tell us his plan-that he will put his money where his lips are.”

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

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

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?

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.