Robert C. Byrd: “If Congress gives these additional powers to the executive branch, then Congress's powers, by the same token, are going…”

The size of the insurgency in Iraq has been consistently underestimated, in terms of the size and the force.

the Congress has passed two use-of-force resolutions, one almost immediately after the September 11 attacks

Well, I have to tell you, Mr. Secretary, this seems to me to be an abuse, a serious abuse, of supplemental appropriations requests.

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.