Weldon Vote Watch: Roll Call! (Week ending June 30)

In a toothless-yet-telling vote this week, Weldon sided with fellow Republicans on a non-binding resolution to condemn the newspapers that reported on the anti-terrorism program that tracks financial transactions, despite the fact that the administration itself had touted its success at conducting precisely this sort of intelligence gathering.

Said Congressman George Miller (D-CA):

The President promised to hold those accountable in his Administration involved in leaking the identity of a covert CIA agent to the press. He has yet to do that. Instead he and his rubberstamp Congress choose to go after leaked information only when it suits their political agenda.

James McGovern, (D-MA):

How many times have we heard the Bush administration talking about the need to monitor and disrupt terrorist financial transactions? How many times have we heard them bragging about their success in doing so? Too many to count. So it doesn't even pass the laugh test when members of Congress start using words like 'treason.' When they start calling for criminal prosecution against newspapers.

Typical red meat for the right wing. It's Independence Day, and those liberals and their sympathetic media are so terribly unpatriotic.