We believe on the Democratic side that the Intelligence Committee should look at the use of intelligence by the policymakers, not just at the production and creation by the Intelligence Committee.

It was not that there is evidence or that there is belief. It was the statements of great certainty.

the price of gasoline, oil, and jet fuel now are at record highs. It is a drag on the economy.

Are we better off with that supplemental before those incremental costs have to be spent?

Well, it's really an unsettling answer from you, I have to tell you...

But have you talked to the Secretary about the need for that?

This has to do with a comment which was made to me by a family support group president for a deployed National Guard unit.

Would that program have merit in Iraq?

This is a very striking problem, when we have people out there who are being charged apparently that much to make phone calls home.

Isn't it reasonably foreseeable that it's going to be at least 110,000, since that's your plan?

As far as I know, that is the largest single year funding request for any weapons system in history.

We should not wait until sometime during fiscal year 2005 to submit a supplemental budget request, as the administration did last year. Circumstances are different this year.

It's Congress which has said this war's costing $5 billion a month at least more than you have requested.

But apparently that provision of the act has not yet been implemented, and I don't know why.

A representative interim government is up and running, and presidential and parliamentary elections are scheduled to be held in June of this year.

Therefore, we have not done operational testing.

Mr. Christie, is this engagement geometry at all similar to what one would expect to see if North Korea launched a missile at the U.S. west coast, and the interceptors deployed at Ft. Greeley were used to try to hit it?

General Kadish, how will you prevent a interceptor that goes off course, or a spent stage, from threatening populated areas?