[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 151 (2005), Part 9]
[House]
[Page 12006]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                           PROTECT OUR NATION

  (Mr. PALLONE asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. PALLONE. Mr. Speaker, the House Republican leadership pulled the 
intelligence authorization bill from the floor today because the 
leadership here is doing the dirty work of Defense Secretary Rumsfeld.
  We all know that Rumsfeld was against the intelligence reforms that 
the 9/11 Commission suggested, and now he is trying to prevent those 
reforms from moving forward. The Republican leadership is keeping the 
intelligence bill from coming to the floor today because Secretary 
Rumsfeld does not want to give up any intelligence control to new 
Intelligence Director Negroponte.
  Let us be clear, Secretary Rumsfeld and the Republican leadership are 
preventing intelligence reform that could make our Nation safer than it 
is today.
  The 9/11 commissioners warned us earlier this week that time is not 
on our side. It is time the House Republican leadership stops listening 
to Rumsfeld and starts listening to the 9/11 Commission so we can 
finally begin to protect our Nation.

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