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      <excerpt>...Committee members' questions. The answers were first made public last week in Steven Aftergood's Secrecy News.  Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who has shown concern over some of the FBI's relatively new investigative techniques assessing possible terror</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Senate Judiciary Committee questions. The answers were first made public last week in Steven Aftergood's Secrecy News. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., who has shown concern over some of the FBI's relatively new investigative techniques assessing possible</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Mueller's recent urging that Congress reenact the provisions as essential tools in the FBI's counterterrorism efforts. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., has also introduced a PATRIOT Act bill. Feingold and civil liberties groups criticized Leahy's measure </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...Mueller's recent urging that Congress reenact the provisions as essential tools in the FBI's counterterrorism efforts. Sen. Russell Feingold, D-Wis., has also introduced a PATRIOT Act bill. Feingold and civil liberties groups criticized Leahy's measure </excerpt>
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      <excerpt>...aides and Congress to work out the details. &quot;I'm becoming increasingly optimistic that we will have a health-care bill,&quot; Sen. Russell Feingold (D-Wis.) said on CBS's &quot;Face the Nation.&quot; &quot;I'm frankly getting excited that we may have some momentum for some</excerpt>
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      <excerpt>Sponsor. Senator. Russell Feingold. D-WI. View Co-Sponsors (4)Hide Co-Sponsors. Sen. Thomas Harkin [D, IA] &amp;middot; Sen. John Kerry [D, MA] &amp;middot; Sen. Amy Klobuchar [D, MN] &amp;middot; Sen. Jon Tester [D, MT] ...</excerpt>
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