Republicans Block The Democrats On Security Bill
The Democrats, far too worried about litigation than lives, were blocked today, when they tried to “rein in President Bush’s domestic wiretapping program Wednesday amid a sustained White House campaign to give the administration broad authority to monitor, interrogate and prosecute terrorism suspects.”
While refusing to give the president a blank check to prosecute the War on Terror, Republicans in the Senate Judiciary Committee kept to the White House’s condition that a bill giving legal status to the surveillance program pass unamended.
By voice vote and roll calls, Republicans defeated Democratic amendments to insert a one-year expiration date into the bill and require the National Security Agency to report more often to Congress on the standards for its domestic surveillance program.
“We just don’t want to see Americans’ rights abused for the next 50 or 60 years because of an oversight on our part,” said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who joined some Republicans in opposing some amendments offered by her Democratic colleagues.
September 14, 2006 - 01:32 PM on September 14th, 2006
Looks like the demacraps are getting taste of their own medicine hope its yukkie and putrid:razz:
September 14, 2006 - 01:56 PM on September 14th, 2006
“yukkie”???