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House Bills
Federal, Senate and Congressional Legislation
Gorden Smith
Peter Defazio
Walden
Regarding bills:
Who: Congress.
Bill Number: S1927 Protect America Act of 2007
Prevent the Protect America Act from becoming permanent.
Peter Defazio: Voted Nay
Introduced on August 1, 2007. Read for the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar.
Sponsor: Sen. Mitch McConnell (R-KY)
Passed by Congress on August 3 and 4, and signed into law by President Bush on August 5.
In the House, the August 4 vote was 227-183. In the Senate, the August 3 vote was 60-28.
Many good speeches were made on the floor of the House and Senate defending the Bill of Rights, and denouncing S. 1927 for purporting to protect Americans from terrorism, while devising more ways to legalize the White House's illegal spy programs. Jerrold Nadler (D-NY) stated the obvious -- that the President broke the law by conducting illegal wiretaps after September 11, but Republicans, forced him to revise his words for the Congressional record. Still Nadler said, "I retain my opinion." It is a grievous time indeed, when the President's crimes cannot be publicly mentioned in Congress, when they are pretended away by passage of the "Protect America Act."
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