Robert C. Byrd: “I cannot understand why the administration chose to begin a major war knowing that our troops did not have enough body…”

Why does the administration believe that the Appropriations Committee, or Congress, should have no say in how this $200 million foreign aid program should be spent?

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…

Will these funds be sufficient to address the complaints that we have heard, and that you heard also, Mr. Secretary, when you were visiting there, that our troops are scrounging for armor in trash dumps?

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