Robert C. Byrd: “I hope you'll think that over, take it under consideration. Don't rule it out.”

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

What does it say about the state of our relations with all of these countries of the coalition of the willing, when, 2 years into the war against Iraq, the United States has to create a new foreign aid program to repay these countries for…

the doctrine of preemption says that one man, the President, shall have power to declare war.

So there's--there will not be a cutback in the R&R leave for our troops in Iraq?