Robert C. Byrd: “And helped to lead to gargantuan deficits.”

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

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.

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

The President hasn't requested one dime of his $81.9 billion supplemental for the veterans' healthcare system.