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"In the end…Democrats have to decide if they are going to stand up for the rights of the American people or allow the FBI to write our laws."
—Senator Russ Feingold
Round-Up of Reactions to Yesterday's PATRIOT Vote — Legislative Analysis by Kevin Bankston
Yesterday, as the Senate Judiciary Committee voted to recommend and send to the Senate floor a USA PATRIOT Act renewal bill lacking critical civil liberties reforms, EFF's reaction was much the same as Senator Feingold's, as he expressed in his post-vote blog post at Daily Kos.
Feingold, one of only three Democrats to vote against the bill and a sponsor of the PATRIOT reform bill the JUSTICE Act, was left scratching his head over how a Democratic super-majority with a Democratic Administration could so thoroughly fail at reforming the PATRIOT Act, a law long maligned by Democrats as an affront to civil liberties.
