Even while Congress was in recess, the drive to declassify the
28-page finding on foreign government support of the 9/11 hijackers
continued to make progress: On the first day back from the break, three
more representatives signed on as cosponsors of House Resolution 428, which urges the president to release the 28 pages. Gene Green
The three are two Texans—Gene Green and Lloyd Doggett—and Minnesota’s
Keith Ellison. All three are Democrats, bringing the cosponsor list to a
beautifully bipartisan balance of 10 Democrats and 10 Republicans. Lloyd Doggett
In other cosponsor news, Congresswoman Louise Slaughter’s reelection
was in doubt for several days after the election, but her challenger has
now conceded the race, having lost by only 869 votes. Keith Ellison
Four cosponsors—all Republicans—will not be in the next Congress. For
more on how HRes 428 cosponsors fared on election day, see our recap.
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