9/11 panel: Republicans handling our recommendations improperly

[Bluebear]

WASHINGTON - Sept. 11 commission members are unhappy with the way House Republicans are handling legislation needed to implement some of the commission's terror-fighting recommendations.

The commission, which prides itself on being nonpartisan, called for House GOP leaders on Thursday to remove controversial provisions — immigration restrictions and new law enforcement powers — from the bill that would reorganize U.S. intelligence gathering. The commission members fear those items could stall final consideration in Congress until after Election Day.

But Republicans say the bill the Sept. 11 commission wants — which is moving through the Senate — doesn't do enough.

"I think it's woefully lacking in sufficient reforms particularly in immigration policy, border security and law enforcement," House Majority Leader Tom DeLay, R-Texas, said. "It basically is a bill that creates a national intelligence director and a counterterrorism center. There's more to protecting the American people than creating a new bureaucracy."

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=512&e=6&u=/ap/20041001/ap_on_go_co/congress_intelligence_17

[rvgwinn]

1. delay

Does anyone else think that Tom Delay has to much influence on OUR government? Even when he does something wrong or illegal, he gets a slap on the wrist. Why does the house and senate put up with it?