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So this means no more patriot act? Isn't that a good thing? The tone of the article makes it sound like a bad thing?
by tocomment 16y ago
So this means no more patriot act? Isn't that a good thing? The tone of the article makes it sound like a bad thing?
- TomOfTTB 16y agoIt doesn't really mean the end of anything it just means congress will look at alternative proposals. With both the Republican leadership and the Obama administration supporting it the passage of something similar is practically a lock. Hopefully it will just be a little less odious.
- iujhygfthujik 16y agoOr more likely the same powers will just go to the agencies without any actual act to oversee them.
- RobertL 16y agoPatriot Act is a bad thing. It kept Islamo Fascists from running airplanes into skyscraper. WooHoo, time to get back to the good ol' days.
- ZachPruckowski 16y agoIt's not gone, it's just going to take a less expedited procedure to get it through the House. There are faster, amendment-free, debate-light procedures, and then there are slower, more amendment conducive procedures. In this case, they're going to have to bring it to the full floor and let people speak against it or try to stick watering-down amendments on it, but since the regular procedure only requires a 50%+1 vote instead of a 2/3 vote, it'll almost certainly ultimately pass in one form or another.