Robert C. Byrd: “These empty chairs here represent Senators who could not be here, and those Senators are not going to have an…”

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

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.

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…

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.