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

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.

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

I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.

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