Robert C. Byrd: “Senator Byrd makes a good point. We will try to get our national labs focused on this challenge.”

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

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

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