Robert C. Byrd: “Are you saying, Mr. Secretary, that the United States can handle the costs?”

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?

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 doctrine of preemption says that one man, the President, shall have power to declare war.

Yet, there appears to be a growing drum beat of opinion that Congress has no choice but to undertake a complete overhaul of intelligence in the few weeks remaining in the session.