It is a time of fear in the face of freedom, a time for the widening of previous roads and the opening of new paths, a time of an emptying country and swelling cities, yet a time when these paths are mined by knowing algorithms of the all-seeing eye. It is the time of the warrior's peace and the miser's charity, when the planting of a seed is an act of conscientious objection.
 | Why Hasn’t the Library of Congress Published the Text of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007? |
Why hasn’t the text of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 been published by Thomas, the website of the Library of Congress?
Why hasn’t the text of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 been published in the Congressional Record?
Why hasn’t even a link to the text of the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 been published in the Daily Digest?
It’s been well over a week since the bill was introduced. It’s been a week since the bill was passed out of committee. There are going to be hearings on this legislation in the Senate next Wednesday. It’s high time that the text of this bill was disseminated in government records for the public at large to be able to read this thing.
My half-assed transcription doesn’t count. The time is past due for the government to make the FISA Amendments Act of 2007 widely available.
But instead, it looks like we’re on track to a repeat of the debacle of August, when sources and backgrounders and a few public nonprofits hinted and complained about private versions of a bill in July, but the public didn’t get to see the full, final bill until less than a handful of days before its passage. That should never happen again.
Congress, get off your duffs, stop delaying, and publish the goldarned bill in text form for all of us to see!
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Oh come on. Do you really not know that we’re under a secret government now that has no accountability to us or the Constitution? It’s so bad that Congress is blatant about helping Bush get his way (for example Nancy “the traitor” Pelosi made Congressman Stark APOLOGIZE FOR TELLING THE TRUTH).
Comment by Tom — 10/26/2007 @ 7:13 am
What? If you’re going to tantalize us like that, do post a link.
Comment by Iroquois — 10/26/2007 @ 12:31 pm
Oh, it’s one of those “Golly, You Offended Me!” “No, No, You Offended Me more!” discursive tempests in a cracked teapot thingamabobs.
Here’s video of Pete Stark’s comments:
Comment by Jim — 10/26/2007 @ 12:50 pm