Guess the senate isn't quite as upset about this as you are mcsluggo, 60-28....wonder what they were waiting on, must not be too controversial...or maybe that vacation sounds good?
But kudos to the congress for getting this done before they go on vacation. Should have already been done but they must not have wanted to go on their vacation without doing this for some reason?
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...080302296.html
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The Senate bowed to White House pressure last night and passed a Republican plan for overhauling the federal government's terrorist surveillance laws, approving changes that would temporarily give U.S. spy agencies expanded power to eavesdrop on foreign suspects without a court order.
The 60 to 28 vote, which was quickly denounced by civil rights and privacy advocates, came after Democrats in the House failed to win support for more modest changes that would have required closer court supervision of government surveillance. Earlier in the day, President Bush threatened to hold Congress in session into its scheduled summer recess if it did not approve the changes he wanted.
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