WASHINGTON — House Republicans, who had been criticized for weeks as obstacles to a bill consolidating authority over the nation's intelligence services, offered a compromise Wednesday that they said could get the bill finished before the Nov. 2 elections. Rep. Peter Hoekstra, a Michigan Republican and chairman of the House-Senate negotiating committee to reconcile differences in the House-passed and Senate-passed intelligence reform bills, announced the proposal at the end of the committee's first formal meeting. Details of the proposal were expected to be released sometime today. House Democrats immediately cried foul, saying they were excluded from crafting the compromise. Many...