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March 11, 2008
On Saturday, President Bush vetoed the House- and Senate-passed Intelligence Authorization bill because it extended the prohibition on the use of waterboarding and other harsh coercive interrogation techniques that currently applies to the military to the entire Intelligence Community, including the CIA.
Below are selections from editorials opposing the President's veto from across the country:
Tampa Tribune Editorial (Florida)
Press Release
March 10, 2008
"The House is taking action today to uphold the rule of law and to protect our Constitutional system of checks and balances. Congress, on behalf of the American people, is clearly entitled to the information that is being sought - it involves the politicization of the Justice Department and law enforcement, not national security information nor communications with the President. The President has no grounds to assert executive privilege."
Blog Post
March 10, 2008
Read the complaint (pdf) >>
Speaker Nancy Pelosi:
Blog Post
March 10, 2008
This morning Chairman Henry Waxman of the Oversight Committee sent letters to the Internal Revenue Service (pdf), the Small Business Administration (pdf), and the Department of Labor (pdf) to request investigations into whether Blackwater has violated federal tax, small business, and labor laws through improper classification of security guards as "independent contractors" rather than "employees."
The executive summary of the memorandum to Committee staff (pdf) explains:
Articles
March 9, 2008
"There is no such thing as a free lunch, and there is no such thing as a free war. The Iraq adventure has seriously weakened the U.S. economy, whose woes now go far beyond loose mortgage lending."
Press Release
March 8, 2008
"The intelligence authorization bill invests in human intelligence, counterterrorism operations, and analysis to protect our nation and ensure that policymakers have access to accurate, timely and actionable intelligence. This legislation is a critical component of securing our nation and the President should have signed it into law."
Blog Post
March 8, 2008
House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer (MD) released the following statement this morning after President Bush vetoed the Intelligence Authorization Conference Report because it included a provision extending the Army Field Manual's prohibition on torture to intelligence community personnel:
Blog Post
March 8, 2008
This morning, President Bush announced he vetoed the House and Senate passed Intelligence Authorization bill because it extended the prohibition on the use of waterboarding and other harsh coercive interrogation techniques that currently applies to the military to the entire Intelligence Community, including the CIA.
On the veto, Speaker Pelosi said:
Blog Post
March 7, 2008
Washington, D.C. -- Speaker Nancy Pelosi issued the following statement today on the troubling jobs report from the Labor Department, which showed that the U.S. economy lost 63,000 jobs in February, the largest monthly job decline in nearly five years:
Blog Post
March 7, 2008
The Oversight Committee is currently holding a hearing, "Executive Compensation II: CEO Pay and the Mortgage Crisis." The hearing is to examine the compensation and retirement packages granted to the CEOs of three corporations deeply involved in the current mortgage crisis. See highlights of the previous, related hearing, "Executive Pay and Compensation Consultants."
Watch the hearing live via committee webcast on C Span.
Chairman Henry Waxman gives opening remarks.