Some background: http://www.wartimeliberty.com/search.pl?topic=legislation ******* http://www.wired.com/news/conflict/0,2100,47442,00.html Snoop Bill Heads to Final Vote By Declan McCullagh (declanat_private) 2:00 a.m. Oct. 10, 2001 PDT WASHINGTON -- A high-stakes showdown over the future of U.S. eavesdropping law is taking place behind closed doors on Capitol Hill. With scant time remaining before possible votes in the House and the Senate as early as Wednesday, the Bush administration is lobbying for permanent surveillance ability over the objections of top legislators. The biggest sticking point: an expiration date of December 2003 that the House Judiciary committee unanimously slapped on some of the additional Internet spying and wiretapping sections last week. An aide to Rep. John Conyers (D-Michigan), the top Democrat on the committee, said Tuesday that the "administration does not want the Judiciary bill to go to the floor for a vote." [...] The full House will vote on the legislation by Thursday, a spokesman for Speaker Dennis Hastert predicted. [...] The Senate version of the eavesdropping and anti-terrorism bill -- which does not include an expiration date -- will reportedly be up for a vote late Wednesday or Thursday. [...] ------------------------------------------------------------------------- POLITECH -- Declan McCullagh's politics and technology mailing list You may redistribute this message freely if you include this notice. Declan McCullagh's photographs are at http://www.mccullagh.org/ To subscribe to Politech: http://www.politechbot.com/info/subscribe.html This message is archived at http://www.politechbot.com/ -------------------------------------------------------------------------
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