Senate Passes Patriot Act Extension
The Senate late Wednesday voted for a measure that would extend three expiring provisions of the antiterrorism law known as the USA PATRIOT Act for one year by unanimous consent, CongressDaily reported.
Senate Judiciary Chairman Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., has been pushing for passage of a version approved by his panel with additional civil liberty protections, but agreed to an extension of the existing provisions because the authorities would otherwise lapse Sunday, an outcome the Obama administration has argued against.
"I would have preferred to add oversight and judicial review improvements to any extension of expiring provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act," Leahy said. But he added that objections from some Republican senators made that impossible this week.
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