"It leaves a bad taste in my mouth," Mr. Shays, the chairman of the national security subcommittee, said of the bureau's testimony.

The proposal was made by Senator Jeff Bingaman of New Mexico, chairman of the technology and national security subcommittee of the Congressional Joint Economic Committee.

These include Representative John P. Murtha of Pennsylvania, the ranking Democrat on the national security subcommittee of the Appropriations Committee, who is pushing a measure to increase military pensions.

Mr. Lee, chairman of the security subcommittee, said that this could be a case of an informant acting on his own and that the spy agency might not have broken any rules.

Nick had seemed concerned and had agreed at once to convene the security subcommittee.

As punishment, Mr. Livingston removed Mr. Neumann from the national security subcommittee.

"I explained to him that my article was based on an analysis of unclassified public data," Dr. Postol told the national security subcommittee yesterday.

Representative C. W. (Bill) Young, the Florida Republican who heads the Appropriation Committee's national security subcommittee, called the bill a "strong statement" for defense within budget constraints.

Lawyers and accountants hired by Iraq's Governing Council will appear before Chairman Christopher Shays' national security subcommittee on Wednesday.

"We're in a race with the terrorists to shut them down before they shut us down," said Representative Christopher Shays, the Connecticut Republican who is chairman of a national security subcommittee.