Timothy Roemer: “It seems to me when the majority leader points the finger at the so-called other body for not doing its work, it comes…”

“It seems to me when the majority leader points the finger at the so-called other body for not doing its work, it comes on the tail of a workweek, so-called workweek, that we have had here of a half an hour on the floor Monday, we were out of session Wednesday by 4:30, yesterday by 1:30, and today at the late hour of 10:29 we have concluded legislative business. It seems to me that there are a lot of important things for the country and the Congress to engage in. One of them is the business of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence. The saber-rattling of the al Qaeda is out there saying they are going to attack America again, yet we have had an intelligence bill languishing in the Committee on Rules for 1 months. I would be very interested in knowing and inquiring of the majority leader why that intelligence bill is not on the floor and why that platform for supporting some changes and reforms in the intelligence community is not leading the way here at a very, very important time in the Nation's history.”