IP: House votes 339-79 to approve USA Act v2.0 "anti-terror" bill

[David Farber <dave () farber net>]

> Date: Sat, 13 Oct 2001 10:35:35 -0400
> From: Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>
>
> You can tell how your congresscritter voted on the unsuccessful
> attempt to send back t to committee -- a good idea -- which failed 73-345:
> http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=385
>
> The 339-79 final roll call vote to approve the USA Act v2.0:
> http://clerkweb.house.gov/cgi-bin/vote.exe?year=2001&rollnumber=386
>
> Text of USA Act v2.0:
> http://www.house.gov/rules/sensen_028.pdf
>
> Background on debate:
> http://www.politechbot.com/p-02652.html
>
> ---
>
> http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47549,00.html
>
>    House Endorses Snoop Bill
>    By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
>    2:00 a.m. Oct. 13, 2001 PDT
>
>    WASHINGTON -- The House of Representatives voted overwhelmingly Friday
>    afternoon to hand unprecedented surveillance powers to police.
>
>    Just hours after the Senate approved its version of the anti-terrorism
>    bill, House legislators followed suit by voting 339-79 to ease limits
>    on wiretapping and Internet monitoring.
>
>    The big difference: The House attached an expiration date to the "USA
>    Act" (PDF). The wiretap sections expire in December 2004 -- unless the
>    president decides it is in the "national interest" to extend them
>    until December 2006.
>
>    During the five-hour debate, legislators complained that House leaders
>    had forced a vote before anyone had a chance to review the 175-page
>    bill. Early in the morning, top House Republicans met privately and
>    abruptly agreed to use the Senate's anti-terrorism bill instead of a
>    more moderate one that their colleagues had expected.
>
>    Democrats were the most strident critics of that decision. Barney
>    Frank (D-Massachusetts) said: "What we have today is an outrageous
>    procedure: A bill, drafted by a handful of people in secret, comes to
>    us without a committee review and immune to amendment."
>
>    Frank was talking about a rule handed down from GOP leaders on Friday
>    morning that banned any changes to the USA Act before the vote.
>
>    [...]
>
>
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