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updated 3:27 p.m. ET Dec. 5, 2006

CAPITOL HILL - Incoming House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says defense experts have told House Democrats there are "no easy answers in Iraq."

Pelosi and other top Democrats attended a closed forum on the situation in Iraq.

After the session, the California lawmaker vowed not to cut off funding for U.S. troops in Iraq. She said she'd establish a commission to investigate "waste, fraud and abuse" associated with the U.S. mission in Iraq.

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Meanwhile, Congressman Steny Hoyer says there is going to be "significant oversight as to how and why we got to where we are" in Iraq.

The Majority Leader-elect says Americans are looking for lawmakers on both sides of the aisle to work together to change the direction of the U.S. mission in Iraq.