Pelosi made a motion to call for secret session - not sure exactly how this works, but roughly:
- voice vote sounded many nays, motion denied.
-Pelosi then made point of order that quorum not present, called for voice vote.
-voting 15 minutes, underway now.
The secret session was to discuss National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
Help fill in the blanks, and pardon my errors here in advance.
Update:
Voting ended. Not enough yeas...moving on...
[http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/ap/politics/4215480.html AP story ]
Such a session hasn't happened in the House since July 1983, when the chamber went into a closed session to discuss the United States' support for paramilitary operations in Nicaragua.
[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/09/25/AR2006092501310.html From Washington Post today:]
Administration officials rejected calls from Democrats -- and some Republicans -- to release an unclassified version of the report, and one official said the NIE discussed how the Iraq war has been used as a propaganda tool by terror groups.
Frances Fragos Townsend, the top White House adviser on terrorism, said one paragraph in nine pages of "key judgments" from the intelligence community discusses how "the war in Iraq is being used by extremists to spread the global extremist message," but added, "It does not say it has made us less safe." The "one thing that would make us less safe" is an immediate withdrawal of U.S. troops from Iraq, she added.
Senate Majority Whip Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) noted that there have been no attacks on the United States since Sept. 11, 2001, and he described the new reports as "selective leaks put out within five or six weeks of the election designed to help the Democrats get control of the Congress."
Sonds to me like this report is also being used by "terror groups" inside the US, who are desparate and perhaps in their "last throes".