Robert C. Byrd: “The President's proposal to immediately cut benefits has sent shock waves through the elderly community. Let us put…”

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.

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?