Robert C. Byrd: “Instead of spending billions on the war in Iraq, we could have used the money to shore up the Social Security and…”

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

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

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.

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?