Good question…however I have no answer because I do not know the present status of DeFazio’s original request-read below…

http://www.truthout.org/article/congressman-denied-access-post-attack-continuity-plans

Congressman Denied Access to Post-Attack Continuity Plans

Newhouse News Service

Tuesday 24 July 2007

EXCERPT

Washington – Constituents called Rep. Peter DeFazio’s office, worried there was a conspiracy buried in the classified portion of a White House plan for operating the government after a terrorist attack.

As a member of the House Committee on Homeland Security, DeFazio, D-Ore., is permitted to enter a secure “bubbleroom” in the Capitol and examine classified material. So he asked the White House to see the secret documents.

On Wednesday, DeFazio got his answer: DENIED.

“I just can’t believe they’re going to deny a member of Congress the right of reviewing how they plan to conduct the government of the United States after a significant terrorist attack,” DeFazio said.

Homeland Security Committee staffers told his office that the White House initially approved his request, but it was later quashed. DeFazio doesn’t know who did it or why

I have been documenting the scurrilous, irrational, childish, vindictive attacks here against Barack Obama — as candidate, as black man, as human being — since May 2008.

Have you been documenting your own scurrilous, irrational, childish, vindictive attacks against anyone who either wasn’t for the object of your undying affection or was running against that same object?

I know very well you didn’t.

But I did.

Well, Susan… you judge a hotel by its clientele. (And by occasionally checking the mattresses for bedbugs.)

I have been documenting the scurrilous, irrational, childish, vindictive attacks here against Barack Obama — as candidate, as black man, as human being — since May 2008.

I am as entitled to generalize sweepingly as NQ is worthy of it.

You know, Barney Frank et al. had better be damn careful with awarding construction bids primarily to minority racial groups.

I have been trying real hard to be conciliatory Moss
But I feel like I keep getting slapped in the face.
You have Robert Reichstag talking about denying white males and professionals from being part of the stimulus
Then have Lowery saying whites need to make right when an AA President is standing right behind him elected in part by whites.
You have other comments from these rappers which I’m not bothering to even review.

Then you have Barney Frank talking from both sides of his lisps.
Why have I lost confidence..Maybe because the folks like Franks who caused the mortgage collapse by wanting to give houses to those that couldn’t afford them is now in charge of social engineering and taking way from those that actually produce.

You know, Barney Frank et al. had better be damn careful with awarding construction bids primarily to minority racial groups. That is what was done in Chicago — that crooked town where Obama honed his political “skills” — and, when public housing was privatized, the minority-owned businesses, many of them, served as “fronts’ for 1) the mob, and 2) buddies of Barack like Cullen and Alison Davis, who scooped up taxpayers’ money by the millions but left the poor in horrifically substandard housing.

Any minority-owned and primarily minority-employed business must receive their due because they’re at a disadvantage often. (That’s the reason such vital laws were passed.) But that should only happen if they are truly qualified to do the job, and aren’t serving as a front for a bunch of crooks.

HCON 1 RFS

111th CONGRESS

1st Session

H. CON. RES. 1

IN THE SENATE OF THE UNITED STATES

January 6, 2009

Received and referred to the Committee on Rules and Administration

Resolved by the House of Representatives (the Senate concurring), That pursuant to clause 4,
section 5, article I of the Constitution, during the One Hundred Eleventh Congress the Speaker of the House and the Majority Leader of the Senate or their respective designees, acting jointly after consultation with the Minority Leader of the House and the Minority Leader of the Senate,

may notify the Members of the House and the Senate, respectively, to assemble at a place outside the District of Columbia if, in their opinion, the public interest shall warrant it.

You generalize everyone at NoQuarter, especially the whites here, just as you have sweepingly accused THEM of racism. You’re in effect just as racist, more so, than the vast majority of people here whose true POVs you are incapable of comprehending.

Yes, there were some who were gaga over Sarah.

Count me not among those gaga over her, although I did enthusiastically support some of her statements. Her horrific positions on wildlife made it impossible for me to be gaga for her.

What WE really OBJECTED TO was that it was so “in” to attack Palin with complaints about her readiness to be president when, four years earlier, the Democrats’ VP candidate, John Edwards, had LESS experience than she and I don’t recall anyone complaining about it.

There were several problems for Sarah that were related to the the sexism and sometimes outright misogyny of those who wrote about it:

1) she was a woman, and women are attacked more than men — since you’re not a woman, you have NO CLUE just how much harder it always is for a woman to prove herself;

2) she had an infant with special needs, and critics like Sally Quinn said that alone made it impossible for her to be a VP — an argument that NO MAN EVER has ever had lobbed at him;

3) Even prominent feminists — most of them — abandoned her to her critics’ sexist attacks solely because her politics didn’t suit them. IN MY MIND, women who focus on sexism and women’s rights have to stand up for ALL women who are being attacked for sexist reasons;

4) Her history of standing up to her own party, and successfully winning office every time out, and her service on an important statewide oil commission were ignored while the media sent armies of reporters to Alaska to dig up DIRT on her and her family; and

5) you had once highly-respected bloggers at major news organizations — e.g, Andrew Sullivan – going nuts over the wild conspiracy theories that she’d claimed the baby she had was indeed her daughter’s.

6) Sullivan et al. were demanding Palin’s FULL medical records while accepting, at face value, the one-page summary of Obama’s own health records — a rather strong indicator that Obama has something to hide about his medical history (drug use, sexually transmitted diseases, psychological treatment, or some other medical issue that prevented him from disclosing his full records, UNLIKE John McCain.

7) Her children became “fair game” and that army of reporters had no ethics about exposing their personal lives whereas – had the same been done to Obama’s girls — the liberal media would have screamed to the high heavens.

I’m fully cognizant that seemingly all you care about are the rights of people of color, and that you could give a damn about the rights and opportunities of women being trampled on, no matter their political views. But we women DO care (well, at least the women who get it that sexism must be fought, no matter the politics of the woman) and we WILL defend a woman, whether we like only parts of her politics — simply because we have the CAPACITY to know what it’s like for a woman to suffer the above indignities while the male candidates (especially a man of color) get a PASS.

THANK GOD for the few women in NOW — and others like Dr. Lynette Long and Lady de Rothschild — who UNDERSTOOD what was being done to Sarah Palin and who vowed to “have her back.”

Would i especially want her as VP? Quite honestly, no. But I was repulsed by the “open season” declared on every intimate detail of her and her family’s lives.

Btw, I’ll bet you only stand up for liberal people of color. I bet women and men of color who are conservatives don’t get the time of day from you. Which is a logical inconsistency that is illogical at best, and wholly unfair at worst.

We live in the world we have not the world we wish we had.
I don’t think the Obama supporters realize what they have done by playing the class warfare card.

Buffett is a socialist and a guilt ridden wealthy old man.
Now that the movement to redistribute is firmly in control I have to deal with the reality of that situation.

Seattle, didn’t you tell me a few days ago that you agree with Warren Buffett’s statement that “Obama is the perfect choice for these times”?

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