Robert C. Byrd: “I hope that we will not be in such a rush.”

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

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.

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.

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