Pete Hoekstra: “This bill could have been done in July, but it was pulled. This is the third rule that we've had on one bill. It's…”

“This bill could have been done in July, but it was pulled. This is the third rule that we've had on one bill. It's almost unprecedented; I'm not sure that I have ever seen this before. It was pulled in July because of the controversy surrounding the Speaker's remarks saying the CIA lies, the CIA lies all the time. So it sat dormant as this country was under attack. When we went to the Rules Committee this week, we had a lot of amendments that we thought should have been put in order. An amendment that would direct the DNI to establish a panel to review the capabilities of Iran--it wasn't important enough to debate that when we went through the debate on this bill yesterday. An amendment that would require the CIA to release publicly unclassified versions of documents relating to the use of enhanced interrogation techniques--that wasn't important enough to debate. What we are going to do with the folks in Guantanamo--that wasn't important enough to debate. What the intelligence community did after Fort Hood and in between Fort Hood and Christmas Day--that wasn't important enough to debate. The process for authorization and notification of covert actions that may result in the death of a targeted U.S. citizen--that wasn't important enough to debate.”