GOP Congressmen Defiant on Intel Bill
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Defying President Bush, Reps. Duncan Hunter and James Sensenbrenner &#151; who led opposition dooming legislation based on the Sept. 11 commission's recommendations &#151; said they won't change their minds without Senate concessions.
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US Rep. Bob Menendez, DN.J., Saturday castigated the Republican House of Representatives leadership for stalling passage of an intelligence reform bill.
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U.S. House of Representatives  Republican leaders pushed ahead on Thursday with plans to pass  their version of a spy agency overhaul despite warnings that  controversial immigration provisions could snarl the bill in a  showdown with the Senate.
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Rep. Duncan Hunter says his son, a Marine artillery officer who has served in Iraq, asked him for two favors. One was to fix his Ford Bronco. The other was to stand firm in opposing an intelligence bill that would strip authority from the Pentagon.
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A spokesman for the Senate Armed Services chairman says draft legislation is headed to Capitol Hill with "new language," for a proposal that would allow the CIA to continue alternative interrogation techniques on suspected terrorists. Republican senators have voted against legislation on detainees held at the U.S. facility at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
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Congressâ chief opponent of legislation to revamp the intelligence community said he remains unmoved, and left the White House scrambling through the weekend for a solution
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Unwilling to concede defeat, congressional leaders expressed hope Sunday that lawmakers could return next month to resolve a turf battle that has blocked passage of an overhaul of the nation's intelligence agencies. Much depends on whether President Bush is more active in bringing his own troops in line, they said.
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Advocates of intelligence reform in the Republican Party said it was still possible to get a bill passed by Congress to establish a national intelligence director, and called
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House leaders today overcame GOP resistance to a major bill revamping the nation's intelligence operations, scheduling a late-afternoon vote that they predicted would pass comfortably.
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Congress is giving itself a month to come up with legislation restructuring the nation's intelligence apparatus, but Republican leaders acknowledge the goal may fall victim to turf disputes and lawmakers' focus on getting themselves re-elected Nov. 2.
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WASHINGTON - If House GOP leaders would allow a vote on legislation designed to overhaul the nation&#39;s intelligence community, it would easily pass, lawmakers on both sides of the aisle predicted Sunday.
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A long-delayed bill overhauling the nation&#39;s intelligence agencies is nearing passage now that President Bush and House Armed Services chairman Duncan Hunter have endorsed
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WASHINGTON - 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...
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President Bush sought to stem a near-rebellion by members of his own party in Congress yesterday by describing a sweeping intelligence-overhaul bill they oppose as an effort &quot;to do everything
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For what could become the third year in a row, the Senate on Tuesday evening did not  pass an Intelligence Authorization Bill, over the objection of a lone Republican senator whose name is being protected by his colleagues.
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Speaker of the House Dennis Hastert, R-Ill., walks to a meeting to discuss the status of the intelligence bill with other Republican lawmakers on Saturday, Nov. 20, 2004 in Washington.
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The Sept. 11 commission's call for reforming congressional oversight of intelligence and homeland security faces powerful resistance in Congress, with some key lawmakers all but declaring it dead on arrival.