Robert C. Byrd: “I will be pursuing this with interest, and I hope that the Department will proceed expeditiously to get the 50 new…”

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks

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.