Getting Partisan On Pretexting

The House Energy and Commerce committee passed a bill this spring that would have made pretexting of phone records explicitly illegal. That bill never got a vote in the full House, and there were rumors that it was killed due to concerns from the Justice Department and Homeland Security.

Congressman Jay Inslee (D-Washington) wants to know what happened and in his opening remarks, diverted from the bipartisan heaping on of HP to fire a few salvos at Republicans.

I want to know who it is in the GOP leadership that has their foot on this bill and has it on ice. That's a story here too that I'd like to get to the bottom of.

I've talked to the Intelligence committee, and there is no problem there. Who is the little secret force in congress that is stopping this Congress from passing a bill banning pretexting?