[Mb-civic] Renewed Patriot Act Gets Boost in House, Senate Panel - Washington Post

[William Swiggard]

Renewed Patriot Act Gets Boost in House, Senate Panel

By Dan Eggen
Washington Post Staff Writer
Friday, July 22, 2005; Page A12

Within hours of a second attack on the London transit system, lawmakers 
in the House and Senate pushed ahead yesterday with starkly different 
bills to extend the controversial USA Patriot Act anti-terrorism law.

Votes by the House and a Senate committee set the stage for sharp debate 
on Capitol Hill over how far Congress should go in limiting the powers 
given the government by the law, which was passed six weeks after the 
Sept. 11, 2001, attacks but has since come under fire from civil 
liberties advocates and some elected officials.

<>After a day-long debate, the House voted 257 to 171last night to 
extend or make permanent the most controversial provisions of the law 
while adding a handful of new restrictions on the FBI. Forty-three 
Democrats joined 214 Republicans in approving the Patriot renewal bill. 
Other proposals for sharper limits were rejected.

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/07/21/AR2005072102338.html 

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