FC: Senate, House ready to vote on snooping, anti-terror bill

[Declan McCullagh <declan () well com>]

Some background:
http://www.wartimeliberty.com/search.pl?topic=legislation

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http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47442,00.html

   Snoop Bill Heads to Final Vote
   By Declan McCullagh (declan () wired com)
   2:00 a.m. Oct. 10, 2001 PDT

   WASHINGTON -- A high-stakes showdown over the future of U.S.
   eavesdropping law is taking place behind closed doors on Capitol Hill.

   With scant time remaining before possible votes in the House and the
   Senate as early as Wednesday, the Bush administration is lobbying for
   permanent surveillance ability over the objections of top legislators.

   The biggest sticking point: an expiration date of December 2003 that
   the House Judiciary committee unanimously slapped on some of the
   additional Internet spying and wiretapping sections last week.

   An aide to Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), the top Democrat on the
   committee, said Tuesday that the "administration does not want the
   Judiciary bill to go to the floor for a vote." [...]

   The full House will vote on the legislation by Thursday, a spokesman
   for Speaker Dennis Hastert predicted.

   [...]

   The Senate version of the eavesdropping and anti-terrorism bill --
   which does not include an expiration date -- will reportedly be up for
   a vote late Wednesday or Thursday.

   [...]




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