Senator Kit Bond says House and Senate Democratic leaders are "kowtowing to the extreme left wing" of their party instead of addressing important priorities they were sent to Washington to address.
Senator Bond (R-Missouri) contends Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nevada) and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-California) are "getting their marching orders from the MoveOn.org and CODEPINK constituency" of their party. Bond is denouncing Reid for arranging another vote on a resolution that would cut funding to U.S. troops and order a military withdrawal from Iraq. According to Bond, the work in the House is "even more ridiculous." He believes its top priority should be to vote on the bipartisan terrorist surveillance bill (the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, or FISA) that overwhelmingly passed the Senate. "The Senate bill gives our terror fighters the tools they need to track terrorists," explains the Republican lawmaker, "and also adds additional privacy and civil rights protections that Americans have never had before." Bond notes with sarcasm that before going on vacation, the House found time to investigate steroids in baseball and political contempt resolutions -- but not to pass the terrorist surveillance bill. As a result, says Bond, "they have compromised our ability to detect and disrupt attacks." Bond says instead of acting on FISA, the Democrats are bringing up an energy bill for the fourth time in 14 months -- legislation he contends would not ease Americans' pain at the pump, but instead drive up the price of gas even higher by increasing taxes on oil and gas companies.
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