Robert C. Byrd: “You did not exactly answer my question. Let me ask a different question.”

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?

I cannot see how under the doctrine of preemptive strike that any President can make this decision by himself.

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

I cannot support this item unless there are some limitations on it, unless Congress can exercise its power over the purse, as the Constitution provides.