Democratic congressional candidates pledged that, if elected to the majority, they would implement all of the recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission. But having won, they are dropping, at least for now, one key recommendation, the Washington Post reported. The commission wanted Congress reorganized so it could better oversee and fund the nation’s intelligence agencies. That’s unlikely to happen — mostly because of turf battles between the intelligence, armed services and appropriations committees.
Posted by Phillip Brownlee
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Wouldn’t Congress have to be organized before it could be RE-organized?
Broken promises and Democrats go hand in hand.
Broken promises joe? What has your current bunch done? How much of the contract on America did your boys implement.
Ahhh, .morg..best defense is a good offense? That was yesterday’s news…let’s concentrate on the present, shall we?
Yes raptor let’s
Like let’s talk about how Donald Rumsfeld sent a memo to ot the p(resident) saying the Iraq war would have to be completely re=thought.
Just a few days before he….uh…”resigned”.
And just a few days after bush said Rummmy was on board til the end.
We’ll clean up your mess raptor. Mind if our folks actually get seated before you start demanding them to do it.
Republicans….sheesh.
Congress needs to be reorganized; I think that is clear. However, trying to accomplish that with a very narrow majority and a hostile minority party is probably impossible.
Why would you people try to defend the subject of the article? It can’t be defended, but you try. Why not do the honorable thing and call for implementing what was promised instead of defending the lie?
I hereby call for the Majority Party to propose the necessary changes. I call on the Minority Party to cooperate fully.
Raptor,You have to look to the past to see how we got the present. How much bang did we get for that 400 billion we were spending on defense pre 9-11? Seems to me 19 guys with box cutters didn’t have much problem getting around that.
Our intel seems to be a joke and there is no accountability. For our sakes I hope it changes.
I want to know exactly what this ‘reorganization’ means. Committees are already partisan nonsense- are they talking about adding MORE of the same?
Mom, IIRC, the 9/11 commission’s thoughts on reorganization of Congress were, in short, to move control of the appropriations process to the intel committees from the various appropriation committes. Makes sense to me; however, strips the appropriations committees of some power, thus goes against the grain. I agree; we don’t need more committees, subcommittes, etc.
hey fleettwood, why don’t you call upon the minority party to cooperate?