Robert C. Byrd: “Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.”

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.

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.

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.