Published: 02-19-08
Liberal Stalwarts Edwards Lampson and Rodriguez Skip Town before Important FISA vote can be taken 
Austin- After a continual blockade of the bipartisan FISA legislation last week Texas Congressmen Chet Edwards (TX-17) Nick Lampson (TX-22) and Ciro Rodriguez (TX-23) left town with their fellow liberal counterparts without reauthorizing the Protect America Act stranding our law enforcement and potentially putting millions of American lives in danger.
House Republican leaders and the President of the United States said that they were committed to remaining in Washington until the people’s business is done. The premature departure from Washington D.C. of Edwards Lampson and Rodriguez from is a strong indicator of Nancy Pelosi’s political muscle with these most liberal Texas members.
“Edwards Lampson and Rodriguez all seem to be happy ‘two-stepping’ to the worst liberal tunes Nancy Pelosi puts on the jukebox. Unfortunately these liberal merry pranksters in Congress have put the capabilities of our men and women in law enforcement in great jeopardy” RPT Communications Director Hans Klingler said.
Yesterday the National Review summarized the current situation:
“Here is the bottom line: The legal authority for the United States intelligence community to collect foreign intelligence — information that protects Americans from terrorist attacks and that our soldiers in harm’s way rely on to do their duty — will expire at midnight on Friday. And Democrats are perfectly willing to allow that to happen.” (National Review February 14 2008)
