House Judiciary Committee demands access to NSA phone record requests.

The House Judiciary Committee unexpectedly passed a Democratic resolution Wednesday morning calling on the Justice Department to turn over all requests made by the National Security Agency and other federal agencies to telephone service providers to obtain information without a warrant.

The measure was passed by a voice vote Wednesday morning with support of Republican Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner (R-WI). It was introduced by Florida Democrat Robert Wexler.

Sensenbrenner told the Committee he would bring the measure to the full House floor for a vote if the Justice Department did not comply with his earlier requests for information about the program.

This could be huge! The White House has been tryingto kill a probe into this NSA phone spying program for some time. Now it looks like, perhaps, there are some Republicans who will not play ball with the administration on this topic.

I am still hanging on to my skepticism until I see some real movement on this. Republicans have proven to be slippery on these issues in the past.