Torture Ban Staying in Bill

If this happens it will be the ONLY moral thing that party has done in a decade. Remarkable that they can do so little good with so much power, isn't it?

Hunter Sees Torture Ban Staying in Bill: "A ban on cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment of foreign terrorism suspects is likely to be included mostly, if not entirely, in a final defense bill, a key House Republican said Tuesday.

Rep. Duncan Hunter (news, bio, voting record) of California, who is leading negotiations to iron out differences between the House and Senate versions of the measure, said if the ban or another provision limiting interrogation techniques U.S. troops can use are changed, they won't be drastically watered down.

'Nobody wants to do that,' Hunter, the House Armed Services Committee chairman, said in an interview. 'I expect a good outcome for all parties.'

The White House opposes the provisions and has threatened to veto any bill containing them. But President Bush's national security adviser,Stephen Hadley, has been negotiating with the chief sponsor, Sen. John McCain (news, bio, voting record), R-Ariz., to find a compromise that would satisfy Bush administration concerns."