Robert C. Byrd: “We ought to balance the budget, but we ought not put an unfair burden on people who have already sacrificed, beginning…”

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.

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.

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