SCN: House Endorses Snoop Bill

[Brian High]

House Endorses Snoop Bill
By Declan McCullagh

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.


[...]

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.

Jerrold Nadler (D-New York) said: "We're told we should vote right now
before we've had a chance to read the bill. Well, why didn't we take up the
committee bill on the House floor earlier this week?"

[...]

The USA Act stands for "Uniting and Strengthening America."

http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47549,00.html

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