Robert C. Byrd: “An attempt to preclude or limit a debate about how to best pay for the needs of our people belies a basic mistrust of…”

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.

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

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

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?