Robert C. Byrd: “The increased deficits produce higher interest rates, the cost of a college education, for example, will grow.”

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

I thank you for holding these hearings on the 9/11 Commission's recommendations for intelligence reform.

I fully agree and I compliment you and our ranking member.

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?