Saturday, November 20, 2004

House Republicans Snub Bush

Coming less than three weeks after Bush's reelection, I find this particularly remarkable.
House Republican leaders blocked and appeared to kill a bill Saturday that would have enacted the major recommendations of the Sept. 11 commission, refusing to allow a vote on the legislation despite last-minute pleas from both President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney to Republican lawmakers for a compromise before Congress adjourned for the year.
(To view cross-post at Centerfield and comments posted there, click here.)

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