Robert C. Byrd: “Further, Mr. President, we must never forget the people entrapped, not only behind Germany's Berlin Wall, but also…”

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

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?

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.