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Patriot Act Passes U.S. Senate Hurdle
United Press International ^ | feb. 17 | UPI

Posted on 02/17/2006 10:16:35 AM PST by george76

The U.S. Senate overwhelmingly voted to end a filibuster and moved closer to renewal of the USA Patriot Act.

Senators voted 96-3 Thursday to stop debate regarding a compromise on the Patriot Act.

All three of the senators who voted to keep debate going were Democrats ...

Some aspects of the act were to expire at the end of 2005 but the White House sought to make the bill permanent.

Congress gave the act short extensions, the most recent of which will end March 10.

(Excerpt) Read more at 540wfla.com ...


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; War on Terror
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1 posted on 02/17/2006 10:16:35 AM PST by george76
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I thought Senator Reed killed the Patriot Act single handed.


2 posted on 02/17/2006 10:19:07 AM PST by oyez (Appeasement is insanity.)
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3 posted on 02/17/2006 10:21:42 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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They should rename it The Jason Voorhees Act.

DU keeps having parties, congratulating themselves because they believe their phone calls to Senate offices have finally killed the beast, but it just keeps getting back up.

Quick, DU! More phone calls! It's climbing back out of its grave! Yi! Yi! Yi! Yi!

4 posted on 02/17/2006 10:22:01 AM PST by dead (I've got my eye out for Mullah Omar.)
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Feingold, who is considering seeking his party's presidential nomination, plans to make the Senate spend several more days on the bill.

Only Sens. Jim Jeffords, I-Vt., and Robert C. Byrd, D-W.Va., supported Feingold on Thursday's vote to stop what Frist had characterized as a filibuster preventing the Senate from acting on the legislation...

Virtually all of the 45 senators who had stood with Feingold last year to kill a House-Senate agreement abandoned the effort this month after two of them, Republican Sens. John Sununu of New Hampshire and Larry Craig of Idaho, struck a deal with the White House to add more privacy protections.

"Compromise and consensus require concessions and flexibility," said Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., who sided with Feingold in December but who will now vote for the bill.

http://www.beaufortgazette.com/24hour/politics/story/3175841p-11883962c.html


5 posted on 02/17/2006 10:26:56 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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What are the parts of the Patriot Act that make so-called "privacy advocates" so nervous?

Has anyone, anywhere in America been pilloried because of this law?

And if the Act is so damning to the rights of Americans, how come even opponents of it keep voting for extensions, even though those extensions are short ones?


6 posted on 02/17/2006 10:27:50 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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What are the parts of the Patriot Act that make so-called "privacy advocates" so nervous?

Has anyone, anywhere in America been pilloried because of this law?

And if the Act is so damning to the rights of Americans, how come even opponents of it keep voting for extensions, even though those extensions are short ones?


7 posted on 02/17/2006 10:28:23 AM PST by RexBeach ("There is no substitute for victory." -Douglas MacArthur)
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The DUmmies are pandering to Moveon and their buddies.

Law Enforcement has had these powers against drug dealers and mob bosses for years....


8 posted on 02/17/2006 10:34:57 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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All three of the senators who voted to keep debate going were Democrats ...

progress?

9 posted on 02/17/2006 10:50:22 AM PST by byteback
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10 posted on 02/17/2006 10:57:23 AM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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ha ha. Feingold loses. Not even his precious buddy McLame stood with him. Only Judas Jeffords and Klansman Byrd were his friends this time.
11 posted on 02/17/2006 11:11:35 AM PST by Recovering_Democrat ((I am SO glad to no longer be associated with the party of Dependence on Government!))
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