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Congress Has Second Thoughts On Patriot Act
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| Contributor | RP |
| Last Edited | RP Jul 25, 2003 09:06pm |
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| Media | Website - Yahoo News: Iran |
| News Date | Thursday, July 24, 2003 06:00:00 AM UTC0:0 |
| Description | Taking a clear stand against anti-privacy provisions in the Patriot Act, the U.S. House of Representatives in an overwhelmingly bipartisan effort last night agreed to an amendment that would bar federal law enforcement from carrying out secret ”sneak and peek” searches without notifying the target of the warrant.
The Otter Amendment, added to the Commerce, Justice and State Departments funding bill and named after Rep. C.L. ”Butch” Otter, an Idaho Republican, passed by an extraordinary margin of 309 to 118, with 113 Republicans voting in favor.
Yesterday's House vote was preceded by a unanimous vote in the Senate last week to deny funding for the domestic cyber-surveillance system known as the Terrorism Information Awareness (TIA) project-- recently renamed from ”Total Information Awareness”
Bills are currently pending in the House and Senate that seek to restore privacy in libraries and bookstores.
Opposition to the Patriot Act is also coming from state legislatures. Yesterday, the city council of Charlottesville, Virginia blocked some implementation of the act, joining more than 140 communities, encompassing more than 16 million people in 27 states, that have passed resolutions against it. |
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