Burton (R-Ind.) Rohrabacher (R-Cal.) and Gohmert (R-Tex.) presented Pentagon officials with 170, 000 signatures from Americans asking that courts-martial proceedings against three Navy SEALs be dropped.
Still, nearly half the House of Representatives, led by Rules Committee Chairman David Dreier (R-Cal.) and Rep. Zoe Lofgren (D-Cal.), recently voted to lift most of the remaining restrictions anyway.