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House Approves U.S. Intelligence Overhaul [336-75]
AP ^ | December 7, 2004 | JESSE J. HOLLAND

Posted on 12/07/2004 4:49:31 PM PST by West Coast Conservative

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To: West Coast Conservative

May I be the second to say the whole thing is CA CA


41 posted on 12/07/2004 5:21:54 PM PST by OldFriend (PRAY FOR MAJ. TAMMY DUCKWORTH)
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To: Dog Gone
Adding 2000 new Border Patrol agents is nothing?

They'll be added right after airline pilots are allowed to carry guns. (Remember that doozie of a promise?)

42 posted on 12/07/2004 5:22:34 PM PST by Ol' Dan Tucker
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To: OXENinFLA

Kucinich voted no. :) Does he vote yes to anything?

I don't get this knee jerk reaction to support the 9/11 commission's recommendation. That said, I don't know much about what these changes are and the media hasn't informed me of anything, besides to demaguage these 2 Republican chairmen. So I have no opinion.


43 posted on 12/07/2004 5:22:34 PM PST by traviskicks (http://www.neoperspectives.com/terrorism.htm)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Re: G. Gordon Litty and his guest on Mondays show.

There are powerful lobbies against the US doing anything about illegal immigration.

One is the banking lobby. Banks stand to profit greatly by opening up new accounts for these immigrants. And the driver's licence will help them do it.

44 posted on 12/07/2004 5:23:25 PM PST by mickie
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To: West Coast Conservative

Pr. 10:19


45 posted on 12/07/2004 5:23:45 PM PST by derheimwill (Love is a person, not an emotion.)
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To: afnamvet

Promises, promises...

I believe nothing out of Dreier's mouth.

If he told me the sky was blue I'd check outside to verify it.


46 posted on 12/07/2004 5:24:08 PM PST by StoneColdGOP (Name a shrub after me - something prickly and hard to eradicate.)
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To: Jay777

Go back to The Day in Photos...


47 posted on 12/07/2004 5:25:47 PM PST by KiloLima (www.opgratitude.com = Give, you will feel better.)
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To: West Coast Conservative
Looks like the December surprise sure trumps the October.....

It's not your daddy's republic anymore....unless your daddy is highly placed in the shadow govt. that ignores the constitution....that is..

Just when you thought the other shoe had dropped... you find you are waiting on a centipede

imo

48 posted on 12/07/2004 5:26:34 PM PST by joesnuffy (Moderate Islam Is For Dilettantes)
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To: Dog Gone
this was more of an intelligence reform bill than a border security act It was the 9/11 Commission's recommendations on how to FIX what was screwed up and let 9/11 happen!

It's not just intel but border security! Those 19 bastards had state drivers licenses and plenty of their pals abused asylum and visa programs and THOSE have nothing to do with intelligence!

Fixing illegal immigration requires more than this bill alone would have dealt with if it had muscle in it, but damn it, it would have taken the right steps.

49 posted on 12/07/2004 5:27:20 PM PST by StoneColdGOP (Name a shrub after me - something prickly and hard to eradicate.)
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To: AuntB; All
I keep thinking about this whole border/security/illegal scenario. Why has this President and others before him ignored this issue? It's not about votes IMHO. We keep hitting a brick wall on this immigration issue. No one wants to enforce the laws on the books. What's going on?????? Conspiracy???
50 posted on 12/07/2004 5:29:28 PM PST by afnamvet (1st SOS Free Republic Pajama Patrol Wing)
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To: TheRatHunter

"we need to filter out the idiots in them and replace them with true patriots who will work to defend this country, "

Now, you're being practical again! I caught a bill pushed through on the house floor yesterday that gives federal employees more dental, optometric and hearing benefits......


51 posted on 12/07/2004 5:29:38 PM PST by AuntB (Every person who enters the U.S. illegally--from anywhere--increases the likelihood of another 9/11)
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To: Dog Gone
Adding 2000 new Border Patrol agents is nothing?

Weren't we told the provisions that would have discouraged states from giving drivers licenses to illegal aliens needed to be removed because they had nothing to do with intelligence gathering?

What do BP agents and more beds for illegal alien detention facilities have to do with intelligence gathering?

52 posted on 12/07/2004 5:30:08 PM PST by Fatalis
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To: StoneColdGOP

If I understood the bill correctly, it was 2k USBP agents per year for the next 5 years, or, 10,000 new USBP agents by 2009.


53 posted on 12/07/2004 5:30:24 PM PST by Terabitten (Live as a bastion of freedom and democracy in the midst of the heart of darkness.)
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To: AuntB

I'm sorry, Aunty, I won't do it again! =P


54 posted on 12/07/2004 5:30:52 PM PST by TheRatHunter
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To: afnamvet

Follow the money, my friend.


55 posted on 12/07/2004 5:31:04 PM PST by TFine80
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To: West Coast Conservative

If DeMint and Toomey voted for it, it was probably wasn't that bad a bill. Unless they all of a sudden became sell-outs.


56 posted on 12/07/2004 5:31:39 PM PST by JohnBDay
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To: JohnBDay

The President pressured them....

That's what happended here.


57 posted on 12/07/2004 5:33:04 PM PST by TFine80
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To: afnamvet

I've tried to think of anything...everything! A couple of the House of Reps guys said they were told it was totally ideological on Bush's behalf. He likes open borders and illegals. I just can't believe he's that blind to the problems he's perpetuating.


58 posted on 12/07/2004 5:34:39 PM PST by AuntB (Every person who enters the U.S. illegally--from anywhere--increases the likelihood of another 9/11)
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To: AuntB
Are you watching the one hour special speech on the floor of a Rep Representative from New Jersey on the failings of the UN, and he cited a bill number that is the bill to remove 10% of the UN funding until questions being asked by Congress are answered by the UN....

First I had heard of that....

59 posted on 12/07/2004 5:36:16 PM PST by Ernest_at_the_Beach (A Proud member of Free Republic ~~The New Face of the Fourth Estate since 1996.)
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To: afnamvet
We keep hitting a brick wall on this immigration issue. No one wants to enforce the laws on the books. What's going on?????? Conspiracy???

That's the question. I'm sort of surprised if no one has the answer. What's the deal? Why doesn't anyone want to do anything?

Why aren't Republicans trying to bust the little devils? And why aren't the Democrats trying to tax them?

60 posted on 12/07/2004 5:37:10 PM PST by Huck (The day will come when liberals will complain that chess is too violent .)
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