Robert C. Byrd: “Mr. Secretary, 2 years ago, the administration ignored its own campaign rhetoric and proposed an 18 percent cut in…”

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…

the same situation that obtained prior to the entry of the war with Iraq might, in some respects, lend itself to a repeat in the case of Syria and/or Iran.

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?

Promoting efficiency and preventing fraud in defense acquisitions will obviously be a high priority.