Robert C. Byrd: “I can assure you that I will do everything I can to see to it that this budgetary sleight-of-hand is reversed.”

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?

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

I will also ensure that the OIG pursues aggressive oversight of contracting issues.

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.