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Posted on 05/22/2015 4:19:45 PM PDT by GIdget2004
The Senate is headed for a pair of late Friday evening votes on competing bills to reauthorize portions of the Patriot Act, with little certainty about the path forward.
Neither a National Security Agency (NSA) reform bill called the USA Freedom Act nor Majority Leader Mitch McConnell’s (R-Ky.) two-month “clean” extension of the expiring Patriot Act provisions appears to have the necessary 60 votes to move forward.
Failure of both measures would increase the odds of an even shorter-term reauthorization of the current law — or the chance that the legal measures expire entirely.
“We’re just trying to figure out how to keep something going while we try to resolve the differences in those approaches,” said Sen. John Cornyn (Texas), the No. 2 Senate Republican. Earlier in the day, Cornyn said he expects lawmakers will wrap up work on the legislation on Friday, and that he thinks leadership still has the votes to block the USA Freedom Act.
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These POS senators are way too eager to “go home.” Maybe they should do that and then not come back.
Show some maturity. Quit acting like a bunch of school children on the last day of school before Christmas holidays.
Take the Senate, the NSA & the IRS and put em on a slow boat to China.
Watch as we pretend to work for the good of the country-—Turkey Neck McConnell
Cornyn is pretty much a butt wipe.
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