Intelligence Bill Unlikely to Be Ready by Nov. 2
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House-Senate negotiators trying to resolve differences in bills to restructure the nation's intelligence community announced minimal progress Friday.
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The Bush administration has yet to name a new national intelligence director, and the Senate Intelligence Committee's top Democrat says he wants an explanation. The position, created in last year's intelligence reorganization bill, has been open for more than eight weeks.
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A bill authorizing the president's warrantless wiretapping program stalls in committee. Supporters charge election-year obstructionism, but opponents want tougher oversight on the executive branch.
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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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Congress is close to approving a broad intelligence overhaul, but the changes that will matter most still lie ahead.
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The Senate late Monday delayed its consideration of a vote on a new government eavesdropping bill until January.
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Top Democrats and Republicans expressed anger and frustration Sunday over the failure of the House to pass a broad intelligence reorganization bill, pointing fingers at some conservative lawmakers and the Department of Defense.
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Washington -- Lawmakers Wednesday abandoned efforts to pass legislation restructuring the US intelligence system before Tuesday&#39;s election, with some warning that it may be impossible to reach an agreement even in time for a lame-duck session in mid
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Congress may have put off immigration issues for now, in the hopes of passing the intelligence reform bill, but a battle over immigration policy may be looming right around the corner.
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Congress will &quot;risk lives&quot; if it fails to pass an intelligence-reform measure before it adjourns in December, leaders of the September 11 commission said yesterday.
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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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A controversial new law that could signal trouble ahead for independent programers is delayed again.
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The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee said Friday the release of an internal CIA investigation into pre-Sept. 11 failures may be more than six weeks away &#151; a delay she finds baffling.
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Advocates of a sweeping intelligence overhaul bill, stung by Saturday&#39;s collapse to move a compromise measure through the House, spent Monday trying to assess
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Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist predicted Sunday that Congress will have an intelligence overhaul bill by midweek, even though the chairmen of the House and Senate armed services committees want changes in its current version.
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(Washington-AP) Nov. 21, 2004 - Opinions in Congress are split over whether lawmakers will pass a major intelligence overhaul plan before the year is out.
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The run-up to November elections means that even if Congress takes another crack at Net neutrality and related broadband legislation when it returns from a month-long recess next week, some observers don't expect either bill to pass.