Robert C. Byrd: “The American people have never been told this, and yet we are going to appropriate money to do it.”

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.

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?

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