Robert C. Byrd: “This would further transfer authority to the Secretary of Defense in consultation with the Director of OMB.”

Does the administration have any plans for attacks against Syria, either because of the assassination in Lebanon or for its supposed hand in the Iraqi insurgency?

Why should Congress not have some limitations on this? It is the taxpayers' money.

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…

to start--in an appropriations supplemental, a multiyear appropriations request, strikes me to be very, very strange.