Robert C. Byrd: “I was 85 when I came into this hearing. I think I'm a little older now.”

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

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…

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?

In closing, may I say that the President's request includes $658 million for construction of the U.S. Embassy in Iraq.