Hello! I'm sorry it's been a few days since my last post! I think between Monday of last week and the votes on the House floor and in the Senate Judiciary Committee last Thursday, I may have slept only about 12 hours! Not that I've been sleeping since then--there has been much to do in the aftermath of those votes and much remains to be done!
Late last night, the House Rules Committee in party-line votes ruled against allowing several very important amendments to the Patriot Act, such as a rail security amendment, but allowed an amendment on smuggling chewing tobacco!
Last week, the House Judiciary Committee approved a seriously flawed bill that makes all but two o
This afternoon the House Rules Committee will be considering requests of Members to be able to bring up amendments to the Patriot Act reauthorization on the floor for a debate beginning tomorrow.
There appears to be no break in the rush by some in the House to try to force a quick debate on Patriot and vote on making almost all of
Today, House Members are submitting proposed amendments to the Sensenbrenner bill to the House Rules Committee. The next question on Patriot likely to be posed on the floor is whether House leadership will allow an open and fair rule for amendments to improve the bill or whether it will force stringent limits on the number and ty
On Wednesday, Senators Specter and Feinstein of the Judiciary Committee introduced a flawed bill to reauthorize the Patriot Act that does not really fix many of the concerns raised by nearly 400 communities across the nation (representing millions of Americans).
Besides the bill just introduced in the Senate Intelligence Committee, there are three other bills to reauthorize, all of which fall short of what is needed to bring the Patriot Act's far-reaching and intrusive powers in line with the Constitution:
