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Democrats and Republicans alike rush to extend the PATRIOT Act

January 31, 2011 - by Donny Shaw

There's not a whole lot these days that the Republican House of Representatives and the Democratic Senate are eager to work on together. But there is at least one thing. On February 28th, three controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act are scheduled to expire, and in the past couple of weeks Democrats and Republicans in both chambers have introduced several bills to reauthorize and extend them. In both chambers the committee chairmen who will be in charge of bringing the bills to the floor for votes have already signed on as supporters.

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PATRIOT Act terrorism War on Terror wiretaps library records domestic spying Pat Leahy Dianne Feinstein Mike Rogers Lamar Smith
 

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