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"God help us" and we let this expire and there is another attack...there were just two parts of it they showed we needed. One was for the CIA and FBI (and whoever else) to exchange information. I don't remember the other one.

But fair enough, write a bill that allows those two things. Not the whole act.

The House version that they'll now vote on had all sorts of add ons. I couldn't find them all in one place yet. But one was expansion of federal death penalty to include about 40 new offenses...and to keep getting new juries to determine sentencing if the first jury rejected death penalty. And to need fewer votes to get the death penalty.

That alone would need a lot of debate (or immediate rejection)

During the House debate I heard mention of other troubling ones such as protecting vaccine makers from lawsuit (past and future) and increased monitoring of peace protesters. But I didn't find those when I searched yet.