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Senate Democrats Sneak Through Patriot Act Extension With No Reforms

Posted on February 16 2011 by Congress Watcher

The Senate Democrats sneaked a renewal of the Patriot Act’s worst spying powers without any hearings, and without any reforms, on February 15, 2011.

Roll Call Of Valentine’s Day Patriot Act Vote

Posted on February 15 2011 by Congress Watcher

A full list of who voted for the Patriot Act renewal on Valentine’s Day 2011, who voted against it, and who in Congress didn’t vote at all.

Tea Party Caucus Mostly Supports Government Spying Legislation

Posted on February 9 2011 by Congress Watcher

Most members of the House Tea Party Caucus voted in favor of big government and against constitutional rights in yesterday’s vote on extending the abusive Patriot Act.

Nadler Opposes Hearing-Free Extension Of Patriot Act Spying Powers

Posted on February 8 2011 by Congress Watcher

Representative Jerry Nadler spoke against Patriot Act renewal today. It has been recently revealed that, over a seven-year period, there were tens of thousands of purposeful violations by the FBI of Americans’ rights in the execution of the Patriot Act.

Garamendi Vs. Cloward On The Patriot Act

Posted on March 4 2010 by Congress Watcher

Jeremy Cloward denounces the vote by John Garamendi to extend Patriot Act powers without reforms. Representative Garamendi himself has made no comment to explain why he voted to continue one of the most broad ranging attacks against the Constitution begun under George W. Bush.

Abercrombie Condemns Patriot Act Renewal

Posted on March 1 2010 by Congress Watcher

Abercrombie condemned the bill, saying, “Instead of carefully and thoughtfully strengthening laws that actually work to thwart terrorists, we’re giving government a blank check to trample civil liberties.”

Feingold and Durbin Suddenly Mum On Patriot Act

Posted on March 1 2010 by Congress Watcher

Russ Feingold and Dick Durbin have not made a single statement about why they allowed the Patriot Act to be extended last week without making a single peep of protest.

National Data Privacy Day Resolution A Nasty Joke

Posted on January 30 2010 by Congress Watcher

In the face of the Senate’s repeated on-the-record votes against data privacy, it’s an outrageous hypocrisy for senators to vote for a resolution that suggests the observance of National Data Privacy Day – a day after the actual event is over.

Nadler To Hold Hearings On Illegal FBI Spying

Posted on January 19 2010 by Congress Watcher

Jerrold Nadler, chair of the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties in the House Judiciary Committee, has announced that his subcommittee will hold hearings into the illegal FBI spy abuses.

Will Congress Investigate Illegal FBI Spying On Americans’ Phone Calls?

Posted on January 19 2010 by Congress Watcher

Overnight, news emerged that for years, the FBI grabbed Americans’ private telephone records without any search warrants, and justifying the seizures of these records by claiming that there were emergency terrorist threats that in fact never existed. Thousands of times, the FBI completely invented stories of terrorist plots to attack the United States so that [...]

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