I think that there is a real chance of nuclear proliferation if we do not deal with this issue.

I know you will look at this in a judicious way. But it seems to me that we might want to establish some different standards.

What I would like to focus on if we could--I mean, I will take your comments. That is fine. I do not want to spend 5 minutes talking about the past. What I would like to do is talk about the future.

It seems to me that the national interests that we have in Syria are that we do not want al-Qaeda or other extremists to control the country.

I recognize that we really have no good options available to us in Syria.

I think sometimes we forget about the tremendous public service that people provide for our country.

we saw during this last CR that there is a process called ChIMPS where you can take money out of mandatory spending temporarily and spend more in discretionary spending, which over the last 2 years has allowed us to spend $35 billion more…

I think a real debate about how broad, how narrow, how vague, how blanket an authorization is, I think will drive us to focus on all these things.

We must work with other countries around the world, not just Western countries, but the countries in which al-Qaeda operates.

I hope this hearing is the beginning of an effort by this committee, which has an exclusive jurisdiction in authorizing the use of force, to look at these hard issues.

We must ask and answer whether the act of Congress, over a decade ago, that sought to address the threat of al-Qaeda meets the requirements of today.

I think where there is not enough being done is, we do not have enough other countries joining us in putting money on the table and helping to be prepared to not just help the humanitarian response now, but also to be prepared for the…