Resolved, That upon the adoption of this resolution it shall be in order to consider in the House the bill (H.R. 6304) to amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to establish a procedure for authorizing certain acquisitions of foreign intelligence, and for other purposes. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI. The bill shall be considered as read. All points of order against provisions of the bill are waived. The previous question shall be considered as ordered on the bill to final passage without intervening motion except: (1) one hour of debate equally divided among and controlled by the chairman and ranking minority member of the Committee on the Judiciary and the chairman and ranking minority member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence; and (2) one motion to recommit.

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Sec. 2. During consideration of H.R. 6304 pursuant to this resolution, notwithstanding the operation of the previous question, the Chair may postpone further consideration of the bill to such time as may be designated by the Speaker.

http://www.rules.house.gov/SpecialRules_details.aspx?NewsID=3972

Summation: There won't be action on FISA today, because it would need a two-thirds majority to pass (it was not given a Rules waiver for same-day action). Things are lined up for a FISA vote in the House tomorrow. One Senator can stonewall this bill next week with simple objections to unanimous consent requests, until after the July 4th holiday.

Let right be done.

I assume this is the source of the comments about FISA by Pelosi that Karen Tumulty transcribed in the comments at Swampland (I haven't yet watched the video):

http://www.c-spanarchives.org/library/index.php?main_page=product_video_info&tID=5&src=atom&atom=todays_events.xml&products_id=206056-1

As for Rahm Emanuel and his cheerleading colleagues who think we're talking about just another piece of legislation in the game of winner-take-all political sport, I'll let Thomas Paine reply to Emanuel's modern-politician-beloved excuse for compromising our national principles, shirking his duty, and lying about it to the public:

A thing moderately good is not so good as it ought to be. Moderation in temper is always a virtue; but moderation in principle is always a vice.

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and

It is the direction and not the magnitude which is to be taken into consideration.

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Those who expect to reap the blessings of freedom must, like men, undergo the fatigue of supporting it.

Regarding the grossly irresponsible Iraq occupation funding bill that the leadership of the minority of the Democratic "Party" engineered through Congress today, I've scanned the bill a few times now, and I fail to see payroll or bullets (or MRAPs, etc.) for "the troops" authorized or itemized therein.

What is authorized is a massive amount for State Department operations (particularly in Iraq), spreadsheets full of itemized Armed Services base and facility construction worldwide, including in Iraq and in the U.S., the GI bill of course (which takes up a lot of the space), lots of "narcotics control" funding all over the world (of which $25,000,000 "shall be made available for security assistance for the West Bank"), a special ($170,000,000) dispensation for Israel [such that if Congress needs to enact continuing (budget) resolutions this fall, Israel won't need to share the pain of our own agencies under a CR's static funding, according to Dave Obey's approving description on the floor], all sorts of foreign aid and "democracy" promotion funding ($75,000,000 for "democracy activities" in Iraq), general bribe/walking-around funds for Iraq, etc., etc.

It's hard to believe that it adds up to $165 BILLION worth of "emergency" funding, but I suppose it does... I guess we can't count on the media (or the corrupt Congress) to honestly report what the (doubtless, AIPAC-beloved) funding entails, but it would appear that the "troops" in Iraq are in fact separately funded via the massive annual Defense Appropriations Bill, and this supplemental is mostly infrastructure funding for the "Empire" and its occupation(s) - on a recklessly unlimited line of credit, of course.

http://www.rules.house.gov/110/text/110_supp_pp_amnd.pdf

P.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra of the House Intelligence Committee is scheduled to be a guest on C-SPAN's Washington Journal at 7:30 a.m. Friday, to discuss the FISA deal (as a like-minded proxy for Reyes, the chairman, no doubt).

P.P.S. Chris Dodd was doing yeoman's work - again - this week on an important housing/mortgage reform bill (while fending off unjust and clearly-unfounded personal smears and rumors about his own mortgages that were aggressively pursued by a suddenly persistent press corps). He seems to have the bulk of that work done now, though the negotiations presumably remain sensitive. So I would imagine he will now have the time to turn his attention to FISA, although I hope Russ Feingold (not to mention Obama and others) will help Dodd out by carrying a lot more of the "fatiguing" load of being temporarily "unpopular" in the juvenile caucus and Senate this time around.