Robert C. Byrd: “The world is changing. No more does America dominate. The question has now become: Can America continue to compete?”

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

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

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.

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