Dick Lugar: “a huge amount of reconstruction of Iraq is going to be required after the war.”

Congress, via the power of the purse, also has the ability to prevent the administration from taking steps, such as testing and fielding new and unnecessary land-based intermediate-range missile systems.

Hungry people are desperate people and desperation can sow the seeds of radicalism.

It seems to me to be really a safety net there.

Several members of Congress have already proposed legislation along these lines.