Timothy Roemer: “there is an old saying about getting prepared enough to address a problem, and it goes something like this: Nero fiddled…”

“there is an old saying about getting prepared enough to address a problem, and it goes something like this: Nero fiddled while Rome burned. Well, the House Republican leadership has not even picked up the fiddle to address some of the problems that we have in the world today that are a result of the terrorist attack on 9-11. Today, we have one single vote all day in the House of Representatives, when in fact there are three important pieces of legislation that are bipartisan that we could bring up today. One is the intelligence authorization bill that is languishing in the Committee on Rules. Why does the House Republican leadership not bring up a bill that funds our intelligence community and begin some reforms to correct problems from the past? Secondly, we have a defense emergency supplemental to pay for our troops in Afghanistan. That is not on the floor. And thirdly, a bipartisan AmeriCorps bill to make sure that our volunteers that want to do something in America can respond to the concerns there. Let us have the House Republican leadership tell us why these bills are not on the floor.”