House Passes 15-Day Extension to Surveillance Bill

[babylonsister]

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/005168.php

House Passes 15-Day Extension to Surveillance Bill
By Paul Kiel - January 29, 2008, 4:18PM

Just now, the House changed the bill to make it a 15-day extension instead of 30-day one, and the bill passed by voice vote. It all happened rather quickly. So it seems as if there really wasn't much disagreement on this at all. Now it's back over to the Senate....

Note: As I noted yesterday, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) mentioned that he would agree to a shorter extension than 30 days. So it appears as if two weeks is what the Republicans hit on. In a press release, House Minority Whip Roy Blunt (R-MO) warns: "This is the Democrats last chance - in two more weeks, if they fail to get a bill completed, there will be no more excuses available.”

[SpiralHawk]

1. "Of course, Mercury is retrograde until then." - Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*

"This just typical republicon homelander OCCULT bullshit. Smirk."

- Ronald Reagan's Dead Republicon Astrologer*


* Courageously channeled by Ye Olde Spirale Hawk, who ate a half dozen cream-filled doughnuts beforehand to maintain the purity of his Precious Bodily Fluids as he entered the Occult Republicon Netherworld.

[VP505]

2. So they are trying to

pull the rug out from under the Senate Dem's and position it to blame the Dem's. Hope the Senate can short circuit that and put it back on Bu$h where it belongs.

[babylonsister]

3. I think the Dems just bought themselves some more time to get this done

right. We'll see...