Posted on 05/31/2015 10:00:56 AM PDT by GIdget2004
Senate advocates for an overhaul of National Security Agency surveillance programs sound confident they have the votes to advance the USA Freedom Act. It’s just a matter of time.
“I think we’ll get it passed on Sunday night,” Sen. Steve Daines, R-Mont., told CNN Saturday, making a bullish prediction on the timing. “Now, by the rules of the Senate, with objections and so forth … the Patriot Act may very well expire Sunday night, but we’ve got to start moving forward here. We could have done this a week ago. And this is the nature of Washington, D.C., is always managing by crisis.”
Sen. Mike Lee, R-Utah, the lead sponsor of the Senate version of the bill, expressed a similar sentiment Sunday morning, also appearing on CNN.
“At this point I think the question is not really about whether we’ll get this passed, but when,” Lee said. “It’ll happen either tonight, or it’ll happen on Wednesday, or sometime in between then. But really, within that 72-hour window, we are going to pass the House-passed USA Freedom Act, which passed the House with a bipartisan super-majority of 338 votes. This is a good day for the American people.”
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That will last until the NSA sends those “votes” copies of the pictures and their browsing histories...
Somehow I don’t believe this will slow down the spooks in the slightest.
There are no consequences for violating our Constitutional rights.
Therefore, the violations will continue.
USA Freedom Act, which passed the House with a bipartisan super-majority of 338 votes
They should have nuked it from outer space and then started over.
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