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Title: House Votes to Extend Patriot Act
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URL Source: http://customwire.ap.org/dynamic/st ... html&CTIME=2005-07-21-21-48-12
Published: Jul 21, 2005
Author: GLEN JOHNSON
Post Date: 2005-07-21 23:05:44 by Mr Nuke Buzzcut
Keywords: Patriot, Extend, House
Views: 41
Comments: 5
By GLEN JOHNSON WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House voted Thursday to extend the USA Patriot Act, the nation's main anti-terrorism tool, just hours after televisions in the Capitol beamed images of a new attack in London. As similar legislation worked its way through the Senate, House Republicans generally cast the law as a valuable asset in the war on terror. Most Democrats echoed that support but said they were concerned the law could allow citizens' civil liberties to be infringed. After more than nine hours of debate, the House approved the measure 257-171. Forty-three Democrats joined 214 Republicans in voting to renew key provisions of the Patriot Act that were set to expire at the end of the year. The bulk of the back-and-forth centered on language making permanent 14 of 16 provisions that had four-year sunset provisions under the original law, which Congress passed overwhelmingly after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. The bill also includes 10-year extensions to the two other provisions set to expire on Dec. 31, one allowing roving wiretaps and another allowing searches of library and medical records. "While the Patriot Act and other anti-terrorism initiatives have helped avert additional attacks on our soil, the threat has not receded," said Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis., chairman of the House Judiciary Committee. Rep. John Conyers of Michigan, the top Democrat on the committee, said that while "I support the majority of the 166 provisions of the Patriot Act," the extensions could lessen accountability. "Ten years is not a sunset; 10 years is semi-permanent," he said. President Bush hailed the vote.
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#1. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
Where is that ex-pat thread?
I no longer wonder how Germans allowed their nation to descend into Nazism.
And we wonder why Congress is cowed.
"But what is Hope? Nothing but the paint on the face of Existence; the least touch of truth rubs it off, and then we see what a hollow-cheeked harlot we have got hold of." Lord Byron
I've been thinking along those lines too lately.
For fuck's sake... The bots will cheer and laud this shit until they say the wrong thing to one of their comrades, and then they'll be in a fix. The biggest lie that I read is that the Patriot Act has helped stop terrorist attacks on American Soil. With the wide open borders, with anyone able to get in, how does that stop terrorism??? Liars, all of them.
The bill also includes 10-year extensions to the two other provisions set to expire on Dec. 31, one allowing roving wiretaps and another allowing searches of library and medical records.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#2. To: robin (#1)
#3. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
just hours after televisions in the Capitol beamed images of a new attack in London.
#4. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#2)
I no longer wonder how Germans allowed their nation to descend into Nazism.
One if by land, two if by sea...how many if they are already here?
#5. To: Mr Nuke Buzzcut (#0)
 | So many morons, so few bullets. |
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