Robert C. Byrd: “Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul…”

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

In your view, Dr. Kissinger, why did our intelligence agencies fail so tragically? Was it because of how our agencies were supposed to work with each other on an organizational chart, or was it because enough money was not getting to the…

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

I am profoundly worried that the President may have a hidden agenda for dealing with Iran and Syria.