The United States House of Representatives is still failing to help protect America. In early February of this year, the United States Senate passed reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) called the Protect America Act. The U.S. House leadership decided to take a 10 day vacation (President’s Day recess), instead of passing the Senate bill and protecting the United States.

This bill would provide intelligence professionals the ability to keep America safer from terrorists. In the Senate, 68 senators voted for it, including Montana’s senior senator, Max Baucus. I applaud him for this vote. Montana’s junior Senator, Jon Tester, voted against the bill.

So now, about a month later, the House has failed to pass the bill. They supposedly asked for 21 additional days to work on it. Those 21 days have come and gone. Now the House Democrats will try to pass a watered-down bill. If the weaker bill even passes the House, it may not make it through the Senate. Nonetheless, the President says he will veto it. It’s dead on arrival, and one has to think that bringing up a different bill is just a political stunt by Pelosi and the House Democratic leaders.

On Speaker Pelosi’s website, I found her statement about Real Security:

“The first responsibility of our government is the security of every American. In this era of unprecedented and unpredictable challenge, we must be prepared for any threat.”

So get on it, Speaker Pelosi. Get on it and help us be “prepared for any threat” before you allow the House take another vacation, this time for Easter.