October 15, 2004

Torture

Posted by Ted

The 9-11 Commission bill is going to conference, where Senators and Representatives will negotiate the differences between the two bills to come up with a final version to send to the White House. Katherine has a good post about the language re: outsourcing torture in the House bill.

We will have an opportunity to contact the members of conference committee to politely let our concerns be heard. Here they are; we’ll have more about this later.

House Democrats:

Robert Menendez (NJ)
Jane Harman (CA)

Ike Skelton (MO)

House Republicans:

David Drier (CA)
Pete Hoekstra (MI)

Henry Hyde (IL)

James Sensenbrenner (WI)

Duncan Hunter (CA)

Senate Democrats

Joe Lieberman (CT)
Carl Levin (MI)

Dick Durbin (IL)

Jay Rockefeller (WV)

Bob Graham (FL)

Frank Lautenberg (NJ)

Senate Republicans

Susan Collins (ME)
George Voinovich (OH)

Norm Coleman (MN)

John Sununu (NH)

Pat Roberts (KS)

Mike DeWine (OH)

Trent Lott (MS)
Posted on October 15, 2004 11:47 PM UTC
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Posted by Barry Freed · October 16, 2004 02:54 PM

Ugh. Joe Lieberman? Bob Graham? Are there even any Democrats on that committee who might take a stand on principle here?

Posted by Tom Scudder · October 17, 2004 02:14 PM
Followups

→ House Passes HR.10, The 9/11 Commission Bill, With Immigration Provisions Intact! [update].
Excerpt: This is a great victory, yet not a finality, for our country's security and immigration policy. HR.10 is to implement the 9/11 commissions recommendations including Immigration provisions which restrict issuance of Drivers Licenses to illegal aliens, i...Read more at Diggers Realm

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