Posted on 12/07/2004 4:49:31 PM PST by West Coast Conservative
The House voted Tuesday to overhaul a national intelligence network that failed to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks, combining under one official control of 15 spy agencies, intensifying aviation and border security and allowing more wiretaps of suspected terrorists.
"We have come a long way toward taking steps that will ensure that we do not see another September 11th," said House Rules chairman David Dreier, R-Calif. Now "we have in place a structure that will ensure that we have the intelligence capability to deal with conflicts on the ground wherever they exist."
The House voted 336-75 to send the Senate legislation to create a new national intelligence director, establish a counterterrorism center, set priorities for intelligence gathering and tighten U.S. borders. The measure would implement the biggest change to U.S. intelligence gathering and analysis since the creation of the CIA after World War II to deal with the newly emerging Cold War.
The new structure should help the nation's 15 intelligence agencies work together to protect the country from attacks like the ones that killed nearly 3,000 people in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania, lawmakers said.
"I have always said that good people need better tools. Here come the tools to help good people succeed," said Rep. Jane Harman of California, the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee.
The GOP-controlled Senate plans to pass the bill Wednesday and send it to President Bush for his signature.
I want to be the first to say the whole thing is CA-CA!!!!
I want to be second!!!
SEVENTY-FIVE??
Only 75 House members had the brains and guts enough to oppose this crap?
a giant fu-fah-rah if you ask me. Or you could take the panic stricken stance of some of these dum a** 911 families who are acting like this bill is the only thing that will stand in the way of the next attack (nvm the fact we have successfully decapitated Al-Qaida while preventing another terrorist attack without this pointless shuffling).
One wonders if "wherever they exist" includes the national ID Drier was trying to slip in. This bill hadn't even been printed, much less read by anyone. The whole rush gives me heartburn.
| Ayes | Noes | PRES | NV | |
| Republican | 152 | 67 | 8 | |
| Democratic | 183 | 8 | 14 | |
| Independent | 1 | |||
| TOTALS | 336 | 75 | 22 |
| Ackerman Akin Alexander Allen Andrews Baca Baird Baker Baldwin Bass Beauprez Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Biggert Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Blumenauer Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner Boucher Boyd Bradley (NH) Brady (PA) Brady (TX) Brown (OH) Brown (SC) Brown, Corrine Burns Burton (IN) Butterfield Buyer Cantor Capito Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carson (IN) Carson (OK) Carter Castle Chandler Chocola Clay Clyburn Cole Conyers Cooper Costello Cox Cramer Crenshaw Crowley Cummings Cunningham Davis (CA) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) Davis, Tom DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro DeLay DeMint Deutsch Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Dicks Dingell Doggett Doolittle Doyle Dreier Dunn Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson Engel English Eshoo Etheridge Evans Farr Ferguson Filner Foley Ford Fossella Frank (MA) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Frost Garrett (NJ) Gephardt Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Gillmor Gonzalez Goodlatte Granger Graves Green (TX) Greenwood Grijalva |
Gutierrez Hall Harman Harris Hart Hastert Hastings (WA) Hayes Hensarling Herger Herseth Hill Hinchey Hinojosa Hobson Hoeffel Hoekstra Holden Holt Honda Hooley (OR) Hoyer Hulshof Hunter Hyde Inslee Isakson Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson John Johnson (CT) Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Kanjorski Kaptur Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatrick Kind King (NY) Kirk Kleczka Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Lampson Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latham LaTourette Leach Lee Levin Lewis (CA) Lewis (GA) Linder LoBiondo Lofgren Lowey Lynch Majette Maloney Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy (MO) McCarthy (NY) McCollum McCotter McCrery McGovern McHugh McIntyre McKeon McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Menendez Mica Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Miller (NC) Miller, George Moore Moran (KS) Moran (VA) Murphy Musgrave Nadler Napolitano Neal (MA) Nethercutt Ney Northup Nunes Nussle Olver Ortiz Osborne Owens Oxley |
Pallone Pascrell Pastor Pearce Pelosi Pence Peterson (MN) Peterson (PA) Petri Pickering Platts Pomeroy Porter Portman Price (NC) Pryce (OH) Putnam Quinn Ramstad Rangel Regula Renzi Reyes Reynolds Rodriguez Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Ros-Lehtinen Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Sandlin Saxton Schakowsky Schiff Schrock Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sessions Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherman Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Skelton Slaughter Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Souder Spratt Stark Stearns Stenholm Strickland Stupak Tanner Tauscher Tauzin Taylor (MS) Terry Thomas Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Tierney Toomey Towns Turner (OH) Turner (TX) Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Upton Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Vitter Walden (OR) Walsh Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Weldon (PA) Weller Wexler Whitfield Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Woolsey Wu Wynn Young (FL) |
| Aderholt Bachus Barrett (SC) Bartlett (MD) Barton (TX) Bishop (UT) Blackburn Bono Boozman Brown-Waite, Ginny Burgess Calvert Camp Chabot Coble Collins Crane Cubin Culberson Davis, Jo Ann Deal (GA) Duncan Everett Feeney Flake |
Forbes Gallegly Gingrey Goode Gordon Green (WI) Gutknecht Hayworth Hefley Hostettler Issa Istook Jenkins Johnson, Sam Jones (NC) King (IA) Kingston Kucinich LaHood Lewis (KY) Lucas (OK) Manzullo McDermott McInnis Miller, Gary |
Mollohan Murtha Myrick Neugebauer Oberstar Obey Ose Otter Paul Pitts Pombo Radanovich Rehberg Rohrabacher Royce Sabo Sensenbrenner Simpson Smith (TX) Sullivan Sweeney Tancredo Taylor (NC) Wamp Weldon (FL) |
| Abercrombie Ballenger Bell Boehlert Boswell Burr Cannon Case |
Davis (AL) Davis (FL) Dooley (CA) Fattah Hastings (FL) Houghton Jones (OH) Lipinski |
Lucas (KY) Norwood Payne Rahall Smith (MI) Young (AK) |
I almost don't want to comment after seeing all the opposition here, but I think its good and bad. There were good things in this bill that we need. Sure there are things that were left out, and that just leaves us more to fight for. Still, this bill wasn't all bad, it had some good stuff in it. Just an opinion. Attack all you want.
I just got back from my daughter's school "Winter" recital...not a word of Christmass.
Now this...
I guess Kerry won the election after all.
nice find oxen!
Ah, ya beat me to it.
Thanks.
"The new structure should help the nation's 15 intelligence agencies work together to protect the country from attacks..."
Will see. Or maybe we will not see. Probably will take at least five years of purging partesian polilitcos out of all the agencies, heaven knows how much re-organization from a structural, operational viewpoint, and vertical managment viewpoint, whatever. To think the 9/11 commission chaired and mostly old fogies and entrenced with liberal lawyers and a bunch of hurting families have forced something on us that may not turn out to be more of a hinderance then a blessing.
Guess time will tell. I think the congress is composed mostly of in-competent and self serving people who just found a way to make good money as apposed to holding down a real job. And quite frankly I have in the past six months or so lost a lot of respect for Admiral Leyman. He sounds like a gopher anymore.
All right Dave Weldon!!!
No attack from me, I agree with you.
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You better be right Dreier. God help you and the Republican Party if you and the ones that voted on this bill today are wrong. Next year for immigration reform Dreier? I won't hold my breath.
Adding 2000 new Border Patrol agents is nothing?
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