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Brendan Daly/Nadeam Elshami
202-226-7616
01/19/2007
Pelosi and Reid to President: Congressional Structures Already in Place to Fight Terrorism
Below is the text of the letter:
January 19, 2007
The President
The White House
Dear Mr. President:
In your speech to the nation on
We welcome your expression of a willingness to work more cooperatively with Congress. A relationship that acknowledges the different responsibilities reserved in the Constitution for the executive and legislative branches of our government would facilitate greatly doing the work the American people elected us to do. We believe that Congress already has bipartisan structures in place, like the committee system and other Congressional working groups such as the Senate’s National Security Working Group, that could produce the result you described in your speech.
We look forward to working with you within these existing structures, in a bipartisan and fully consultative way, to make progress on efforts against terrorism and other important matters.
Sincerely,
Harry Reid
Majority Leader Speaker of the House