Intelligence Overhaul Deal Falls Through [View All]

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WASHINGTON - Congress on Saturday failed in its attempt to get legislation addressing the Sept. 11 Commission's terror-fighting recommendations to President Bush (news - web sites), but Republican leaders said they would try to press the effort later this year.

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House Majority Leader Tom Delay said "Our members want us to continue, the speaker wants us to continue to negotiate and so does the Senate, so we're going to continue to negotiate and see if we can get a bill in December."

However chance are unlikely if the House and Senate both leave Washington and end their post-election session.

Delay said that Reps. Duncan Hunter, R-Calif., and James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisc., had not agreed to a compromise reached earlier Saturday and he wanted their approval before the House moved forward.