House passes a one-month extension of the Patriot Act

http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/22/patriot.act.ap/index.html

WASHINGTON (AP) -- The House passed a one-month extension of the Patriot Act on Thursday and sent it to the Senate for final action as Congress scrambled to prevent expiration of anti-terror law enforcement provisions on December 31.

Approval came on a voice vote in a nearly empty chamber, after Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wisconsin, chairman of the House Judiciary Committee, refused to agree to a six-month extension the Senate cleared several hours earlier.

House passage marked the latest step in a stalemate that first pitted Republicans against Democrats in the Senate, then turned into an intramural GOP dispute.

It was not clear when the Senate would act on the one-month bill, but approval was possible by evening.

Without action by Congress, several provisions enacted in the days following the 2001 terror attacks are due to expire. President Bush has repeatedly called on Congress not to let that happen.

Sensenbernner (R-WI) Holding Up Patriot Act Extention
http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5670782

The Patriot Act is set to expire on December 31, okay I get that.

So Sensie-boy wants a one-month extension, which I assume means that, if passed, the Pat Act will now expire on January 31.

Here's what gets me -- isn't that the same day the House starts up again after the recess? Is Sensie planning on having committes meetings, hearings, and votes on the first day back, and just hope the Senate does the same?

What an ass.

On Edit: Okay, I see reports now that the new expiration date will be February 3, so there's at least some time to actually work before voting.

Sensenbrenner's still an ass, tho.

They probably don't have anyone to testify that the Patriot Act actually accomplished anything. They want it as a symbol. Hearings would make that impossible.

Please change it... He is from WI.

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Breaking News

I thought it was 6 months earlier in the day....

.. voted for it.

But the House changed it to six weeks.

hehheh

Sue

More info on it


http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/12/22/patriot.act.ap/index.html

It was breaking news as in finalized 2 minutes ago :)

I don't post much but have been lurking for awhile now, thanks :)

Sometimes different news sources get the news out earlier, so that might be the problem here. So someone else may have had a link to a different, earlier source. No biggie (it's the thought that counts, imho).

I heard the whacko filling in for Insanity say today that Chimp won't sign a short extension. He wants it permanent.

He had to back down from his earlier statements about not signing a short extension!

And what do you want to bet that it was realizing that 6 months would put them right in the middle of campaign season that got them to shorten the time from the 6 months that the Senate wanted?

welcome to DU. Be sure to do the search button before you post so that you won't create a dupe thread.

features have changed without me knowing.

I keep thinking that everyone wants to keep DU going and contributes...silly me...this economy is killer for so many things. When you post without the star, does the list of recent posts pop up? Just wondering.

And welcome to DU, bpyatt........... :applause:

One month, six months, things done in the dead of night by chicanery, little spats among the Congresspersons. Somehow I don't think this is about fending off terror.

I'm quite sure this is all about power and a bunch of little boys spitting and punching. Too bad they are playing with big boy toys.

Were this a Democratic House, Dem. Senate & Dem. Pres., the MSM would be producing special features about government in disarray, about a failed presidency, about leadership crisis.

And nobody, after the address he gave, called him on it!e

I've never heard such spinning! Even later in the day a lot of what I heard on MSM didn't mention what a big loss this was for Bush. I guess a lot of the media were fooled by the spin? (Although Andrea Mitchell, filling in for Tweety, to her credit, did call it accurately.)

But we KNOW those things about a government in disarray, a failed presidency and a leadership crisis are true, and so do increasing numbers--continually increasing numbers-- of people. One online poll today had 85% voting that Bush's wiretaps constituted an impeachable offense.


OK, the poll wasn't scientific, OK, so it got DUed, but 85% with over 100,000 people voting means something.

I used to think I knew most of the rules, but the Republicans have been adding and subtracting pages from the rulebook and now I'm completely confused. Can anyone provide a link for the list of House and Senate rules?

this is so the republicans won't have to face a 'civil liberties' issue during the midterm election campaigns?

about voting for this bill! Majority of America don't want this shit!

WASHINGTON - Congress on Thursday approved a one-month extension of the Patriot Act and sent it to President Bush in a pre-Christmas scramble to prevent many of its anti-terrorism provisions from expiring Dec. 31.

The Senate, with only Sen. John Warner (news, bio, voting record), R-Va., present, approved the Feb. 3 expiration date four hours after the House, with a nearly empty chamber, bowed to Rep. James Sensenbrenner's refusal to agree to a six-month extension.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/patriot_act

1) McClellan stated earlier to day that while the 90 day extension was an unacceptable "short term" extension that the six month extension was acceptable because it was not "short term" and thus was acceptable to the White House .

2) Last I knew the Senate was going to reconvene Jan. 15, 2006, but the House of Representatives was not going to reconvene until January 31, 2006--this scheduling courtesy of Hastert as an apparent courtesy to DeLay who had hoped that his legal troubles would be behind him by then and he could return to being House majority leader--looks like that isn't going to work so well either . . . .

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dp

This is a later breaking story on the SENATE going with the House. The other story is an earlier story about the HOUSE passage.

but, whatever. who needs details.