Robert C. Byrd: “I often comment, Mr. Chairman, that our country has been able to put a man on the moon and bring him back to Earth…”

The Department is firmly committed to working closely and openly with Congress in order to protect the health of our servicemembers.

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.

I hope that wherever you can share your views, you will, because it's pretty easy in history to see this.