Discussions between the White House and 9/11 Commission are continuing over a compromise that would allow National Security Advisor Condoleezza Rice testify in public. According to the Los Angeles Times, White House officials said Rice was willing to talk again to the commission privately but she would not testify under oath. But the chair of the commission Republican Thomas Kean said “I would like to have her testimony under the penalty of perjury.” It has also been proposed that the commission be allowed to release their notes of Rice’s first interview with the panel. There are no recordings of the questioning, because the White House had barred the session from being taped. On Capitol Hill, Senate Democrats Edward Kennedy of Massachusetts and Charles Schumer of New York plan to introduce a formal resolution today calling on Rice to testify under oath. The New York Times points out today that it is not unprecedented for a national security advisor to testify before Congress in open session. Jimmy Carter’s Zbiginiew Brzezinski did so in 1980 and Sandy Berger did so twice during his term as President Clinton’s advisor.