Robert C. Byrd: “I am opposed to entitlements in appropriations bills.”

I fully agree and I compliment you and our ranking member.

I do not believe that we can overstate the importance or the difficulty of the challenge before the Congress.

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

So as I understand your response, you do not think that the intelligence community would have come to any different conclusion about Iraq's nonexistent weapons of mass destruction if the 9/11 Commission's recommendation for intelligence…