Robert C. Byrd: “Mr. President, we cannot afford to mortgage this Nation's future. The debt will be called when we least expect it.”

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

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.

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

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