Robert C. Byrd: “This is a gimmick that this administration is using, I must say, and the American people are being kept in the dark.”

My top priority will be to learn what challenges the DOD IG office needs to address and to ensure the adequacy of resources required to accomplish its mission.

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

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

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.