Robert C. Byrd: “Mr. President, we are rapidly becoming and we have already become, in spirit and in fact, more than a neutral in the…”

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

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

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

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