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INHOFE SAYS INTELLIGENCE REFORM BILL OVERLOOKS MAJOR ISSUES Wednesday, December 8, 2004 WASHINGTON--U.S. Sen. James M. Inhofe (R-Okla.) today voted against the final passage of the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 (S.2845), which was eventually approved by the Senate (89-2). "Today I joined the majority of our Oklahoma delegation in voting against the final passage of this bill," Inhofe said. "While there where many provisions I agreed with, unfortunately there were also glaring omissions that where impossible to overlook and caused me to oppose final passage. "Stripped from the final version of this bill were five provisions...

Today in the Senate, the Intelligence reform bill, S2845, passed with a vote of 89 to 2 . Senator James Inhofe (R) Oklahoma stated on the floor his reasons for not supporting the bill, which left out effective immigration/border control provisions passed by the House of Representatives in their HB 10. I first became familiar with Mr. Inhofe around 1993, when he was a member of the House of Representatives. One very late night, during special orders of the house, Inhofe gave a speech about something known as “The Discharge Petition”. This practice had been in the house for about...

U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 108th Congress - 2nd Session as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the SenateVote Summary Question: On Passage of the Bill (S. 2845, As Amended ) Vote Number: 199 Vote Date: October 6, 2004, 05:01 PM Required For Majority: 1/2 Vote Result: Bill Passed Measure Number: S. 2845 (National Intelligence Reform Act of 2004 ) Measure Title: A bill to reform the intelligence community and the intelligence and intelligence-related activities of the United States Government, and for other purposes. Vote Counts: YEAs 96 NAYs...

WASHINGTON (AP) - House GOP leaders braced Thursday for a late-session showdown with the Senate over conflicting versions of legislation written in response to the terror-fighting recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. Republicans leaders say the House version, which includes creation of a national intelligence director as well as anti-terrorism, illegal immigration, border-security and identity-theft powers, is the best bill and should be the one that prevails. "It's real simple. The House bill - every single word of it - will make the American people safer," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, proclaimed as Congress neared the time for lawmakers...

WASHINGTON (AP) - After Congress shuffled the federal bureaucracy in response to the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks by creating the Homeland Security Department, Democrats lost control of the Senate and four seats in the House. With a new government reorganization on the table - this time a restructuring of the nation's intelligence network - Democrats fear Republicans will succeed in using a critical national security debate to play to voter fears about terrorism. "There is anxiety - you will not be surprised to hear - among some of my Democratic colleagues in Congress, based on the 2002 experience with...