Tip of the hat to Secrecy News for unearthing this one:
In a "shocking and inexcusable" action that may threaten the institution of congressional intelligence oversight, an anonymous Senator yesterday blocked Senate consideration of the pending Intelligence Authorization Act for FY 2007. No intelligence authorization bill has been passed by Congress for the past two years.
The article itself outs Senator DeMint (R-SC) as the culprit and cites his covering for Bush on secret CIA prisons as the reason. However, they do a better job than I could explaining how this could end Congressional oversight of the intelligence community, so I recommend you Check out the post.