| Washington, D.C.—Congressman Steve King joined his Republicans colleagues today in walking out of the House chamber to protest the reckless endangerment pursued by Congressional liberals.
The walkout follows the announcement by Speaker Pelosi that the House would not take up a bill, agreed upon by the President, the Senate, and House Republicans, to update and reauthorize intelligence surveillance law, known as the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). If an updated FISA bill is not passed by Saturday, America’s intelligence professionals will be unable to target new communications of foreign terrorists overseas. According to the Director of National Intelligence, Admiral Mike McConnell, almost two-thirds of foreign terrorist communications will be missed without an updated FISA law.
King stated, “Pelosi and her liberals refused to debate a bi-partisan Senate bill to update FISA. Instead of taking up this vital bill to secure America, she and her Democrats want to play politics with contempt charges against members of the Bush administration. They are going on vacation this afternoon without passing a bi-partisan FISA update that passed the Senate earlier this week.”
“By this Saturday, Pelosi and her liberals will be on vacation and a back door will be opened for terrorists to plan attacks on America. This is unacceptable. I condemn this arrogant disregard for the physical safety of every American- man, woman and child.”
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