Welcome to a Liveblog of the Senate Committee on Appropriations Hearing on the Iraq War Supplemental, beginning at 2:00 p.m. EDT. Chairman Robert Byrd (D-WV) has already strongly noted that he isn't ready to hand the President another blank check. We'll see.
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Committee link (scroll down page to Webcast link)
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Committee Members
Robert C. Byrd (D-WV) Chair Thad Cochran (R-MS) Ranking Member
Daniel K. Inouye (D-HI) Ted Stevens (R-AK)
Patrick J. Leahy (D--VT) Arlen Specter (R-PA)
Tom Harking (D-IA) Pete Domenici (R-NM)
Barbara Mikulski (D-MD) Christopher S. Bond (R-MO)
Herb Kohl (D-WI) Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Byron Dorgan (D-ND) Richard C. Shelby (R-AL)
Patty Murray (D-WA) Judd Gregg R-NH)
Diane Feinstein (D-CA) Robert F. Bennett (R-UT)
Richard J. Durbin (D-IL) Larr Craig (R-ID)
Tim Johnson (D-SD) Kay Bailey Hutchinson (R-TX)
Mary L. Landrieu (D-LA) Sam Brownback (R-KS)
Jack Reed (D-RI) Wayne Allard (R-CO)
Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) Lamar Alexander (R-TN)
Ben Nelson (D-NE)
Hmmm, sorry about the zig-zagging Republicans (on so many levels) but I don't know why this happened and frankly don't care.
Witness List
Robert Gates, Secretary of Defense
John Negroponte, Deputy Secretary of State
General Peter Pace, Chair, Joint Chief of Staff
Keep in mind the cowardly Democrats who voted with the Republicans for the Kyl-Lieberman "Sense of the Senate" which is the o.k. to start war with Iran -- unless you believe that lying Lieberman. What will the next supplemental be?