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It extends three provisions of the law until May 27, a compromise reached by congressional leaders to give lawmakers more time to consider re-authorizing them for a longer period of time.
House approves Patriot Act extension, sending it to Obama Felicia Sonmez 2011
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It extends three provisions of the law until May 27, a compromise reached by congressional leaders to give lawmakers more time to consider re-authorizing them for a longer period of time.
House approves Patriot Act extension, sending it to Obama 2011
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That goes for re-authorizing key provisions of the Patriot Act (including that favorite ACLU bugaboo, the so-called library-records provision); moving forward with military tribunals for Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and other detainees; keeping Guantanamo open (albeit grudgingly), and giving the CIA authority to dramatically increase the use of drones against terrorist leaders.
The 9/11 Decade 2011
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Highlights also included encouraging women to breast-feed their children as an obesity preventative, re-authorizing and expanding the Child Nutrition Act so that more children participate in its summer meals programs and rethinking public housing construction so that sidewalks and bike paths are included in the planning and street-facing porches are incorporated as a way of increasing neighborhood safety.
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On the importance of strengthening and re-authorizing No Child Left Behind this year:
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(After Levin would reportedly be pushed out of the office for not sufficiently towing the Cheney line, acting head Steven Bradbury would author further memos re-authorizing torture.)
Nan Aron: Bush DOJ Official Agrees "Torture Memo" Lawyers Should Be Investigated 2009
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I have little confidence that NCLB will be substantially changed whenever they get around to re-authorizing it.
National Testing, School Globalization, and the Mass Extinction of Learning Jim Horn 2009
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Once on re-authorizing illegal domestic spying by giving immunity to the Telcos 'past criminal offenses.
Tom D'Antoni: Candidates In Pissing Contest as Washington Burns 2008
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"He may not care deeply about re-authorizing the Fisheries Act," says an aide, "but he is a hands-on committee chairman."
Senator Hothead 2008
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Throughout the debate about re-authorizing FISA, Administration apologists have falsely claimed that domestic spying is necessary to protect the country from a future terrorist attack.
Shahid Buttar: Subsidizing Corporate Crime and Rewarding Constitutional Abuses 2008
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