U.S. Nuclear Deal With India Criticized by G.O.P. in Congress

[Judi Lynn]

U.S. Nuclear Deal With India Criticized by G.O.P. in Congress

By JOEL BRINKLEY
Published: October 31, 2005
WASHINGTON, Oct. 30 - Senior Republicans in Congress are angry with the Bush administration for proceeding with a deal to help India build civilian nuclear power plants without involving Congress so far, especially given that Congress will have to change one or more laws to make the deal viable.

"As it stands, the situation is both strange and unusual in that the Indian authorities know more about this important proposal than we in Congress," Representative Henry J. Hyde of Illinois, chairman of the House International Relations Committee, complained last week in an unusual public rebuke of the administration by a loyal Republican.

Republican aides said several members of Congress were outraged. Recently, the Republican chairmen and senior Democrats on both the Senate and House foreign affairs committees wrote to Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, urging her in atypically sharp language "to begin substantive discussions with our respective committees as soon as possible." The stated concern is procedural, but behind it lies a larger unease about bypassing nonproliferation rules for India, where "we still don't have transparency," as a Senate aide put it.

R. Nicholas Burns, the under secretary of state for political affairs, is negotiating the deal with India. In an interview, he said he had taken pains in recent days to explain to senior members of Congress that, on a recent trip to India, all he did was explain to the Indians their specific obligations and try to work out a timetable for fulfilling them.
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http://www.nytimes.com/2005/10/31/politics/31diplo.html

[rodeodance]

1. so Bush did not consult his Repug congress!!

[Hubert Flottz]

2. Henry J. Hyde should have seen this coming, when he and all...

his lockstepping GOP drones and neocon lovers in the House and Senate let that pony in the White House run. The same way that pony in Germany started running in 1933. Bush don't need Henry any more because he's the boss and he dares Henry to raise a finger to stop the Chancellor. We tried to tell them, but nooooooooooooooooooooooo!

Welcome to the fourth Reich Henry, I hope you were paid well for your part in the making of this monster. I hope it was worth it to you rats to betray your country, because of your greed and lust for total power.

Oh, and have a Merry Fitzmas...Crime don't always pay Henry J, ask Scooter"Cockbook"Libby, if you don't believe me.

[Democat]

3. Republicans in Congress will do what they are told

Bush doesn't care what they think because in the end they do what they are told, just like Bush himself does.

If there is money to be made on these nuclear deals, then the Republicans will do what their donors tell them and vote yes.

Republicans politicians do what they are told.

[pinniped]

4. They better watch it or they'll all end up in Gitmo.

Monkeyboy has absolute power and congress should STFU.

[FloridaPat]

5. * promised Indian companies that are taking computer jobs to India

that he would do anything he could to keep them going to India. After all, exporting jobs is good for the economy. Seems * works for a lot of diffent countries, none of which are the US.