Yesterday, the Senate enthusiastically endorsed the Administration's wireless wiretapping program (and voted to stop the 40 or so lawsuits against the telecoms for cooperating with it). Now the question becomes whether members of the House will stand by their bill, which contains stronger court oversight of the spying and does not contain retroactive immunity for the telecoms.The early signs from the House leadership have been that they will strongly oppose the Senate version. The administration has put the pressure on any way it can. It's threatened to veto any bill that does not grant retroactive immunity to the telecoms.
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And […] a group of moderate Democrats in the House are set to bolt.
Typical.
....but hey, do what you want....you will anyway.
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