Posted on 10/10/2007 5:41:13 PM PDT by silent_jonny
In a statement this morning at the White House, President Bush again urged Congress to make the Protect America Act permanent. The Act, which modernizes the outdated 1978 FISA laws and strengthens the United States ability to collect foreign intelligence on terrorists overseas, is set to expire this February. The problem is the threat to America is not going to expire in February.(Transcript)
The president also warned Congress to oppose the Armenian genocide resolution, which the Democrats are choosing to make an issue of now, 92 years after the fact. This resolution is not the right response to these historic mass killings.
Press Secretary Dana Perino: One thing the President has done every year since he got here is issue a presidential message. This year it was on April 24, 2007 (Presidential Message: Honoring Memory of 1.5 Million Armenian Lives Lost During Ottoman Empire)[The president has] made it clear how we feel about the Armenian people, and understands the heartache and frustration that they feel about what happened in 1915.
The United States House of Representatives has a lot of business before it, including passing any of our -- or getting conferees appointed to the appropriations bills so that we can actually get the budget underway. So there's a lot of work that they could be doing rather than this. (Transcript)
Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of Defense Robert Gates also urged Congress to oppose the resolution in a joint statement this morning at the White House.
More background on the resolution here.
Secretary Gates later spoke at the United States Army 2007 annual meeting in Washington. (Article)
And this afternoon, President Bush participated in the Hispanic Heritage Month celebration in the White House Rose Garden. (Transcript)
Enjoy your visit to Sanity Island
Yay & Way to Say...F L Laura!
re: Her speech.
i have a little plaque that says “Life is what happens when we are making other plans” I think that about says it all!
Dana Perino: (speaking about The Protect America Act) the law that the Congress passed last August put a six-month sunset on the bill. The President said that we would -- we had to have the closure of the intelligence gap. So we said that we were willing to go forward with the bill for a six-month period because we had to -- we had a situation in which we really needed to make sure that we were gathering all the intelligence that we could get. But we said that we would revisit this in the fall.The President has said one of the things he has to have is permanency. You want the intelligence community to know that they're going to have these tools and the flexibility they need to protect the country. This bill that the Democrats have put forward only gives you a one-year extension; actually, I think it goes through December 2009. That is not permanent. And this is a debate that the President thinks we should settle here and now.
Thanks so much, jonny .. ;) It’s winter here today ...
brrrr .. and Sunday, it was miserably hot and humid ..
high 80’s with a feels like of 90. Whew!
snugs, all:
Lynn Cheney will be on soon on the Glenn Beck show
on CNN’s Headline News.
Thanks jonny, Great pics of the prez and friends.
PRay for W and Our Victorious Troops
Lots of progression pics tonight :)
Hi, Meg! Thanks :)
My comments progess about the progression!
LOL!
:)
Thanks for the daily dose.
Thanks, Deb. And thank you for your BDS-FREE links :) Much appreciated.
I guess that's because they think they're gonna win back the White House, and they don't want to have to be bound by any laws that passed under the aegis of a Republican President.
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