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Result: Passed - May 26, 2011
Question: On Motion to Concur in the Senate Amendment to the House Amendment: S 990 Small Business Additional Temporary Extension Act of 2011
Required percentage of 'Aye' votes: 1/2 (50%)
Percentage of 'aye' votes:
58%
OpenCongress Summary
Four-year reauthorization of three controversial government surveillance powers from the PATRIOT Act. The powers include the authority for “roving” wiretaps that allows the government to monitor computers that may occasionally be used by suspected terrorists, the “tangible records provision” that requires banks, telecoms and libraries to hand over any customer information the government requests without being allows to inform the customer, and the “lone wolf” provision allowing the government to track terrorists acting independently of any foreign power or organization.
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Official Summary
5/26/2011--Public Law. PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011 - Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 to extend until June 1, 2015, provisions concerning roving electronic surveillance orders and requests for the production of business records and other tangible...
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S.990 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
jamgress2012
January 02, 2013
I oppose S.990 - PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
Sincerely,
Jamal Ahmed
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S.990 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
beckhamkenneth
November 04, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 2nd Congressional district of Tennessee. I oppose S.990 - PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
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S.990 PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011
SMolnar
July 22, 2012
I am writing as your constituent in the 1st Congressional district of Maryland. I oppose S.990 - PATRIOT Sunsets Extension Act of 2011, and am tracking it using OpenCongress.org, the free public resource website for government transparency and accountability.
96% of users on OpenCongress.org, a free, non-partisan resource, oppose S.990.
Sincerely,
Stuart Molnar
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