UNITING AND STRENGTHENING AMERICA BY PROVIDING APPROPRIATE TOOLS REQUIRED TO INTERCEPT AND OBSTRUCT TERRORISM (USA PATRIOT) ACT
Amendments
Civil liberties: extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2167), H13180 [22DE]
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), H6247, H6249, H6252, H6254, H6256, H6260, H6262, H6263, H6274, H6276, H6277, H6282, H6283, H6285, H6287, H6290, H6292, H6294, H6295, H6297 [21JY]
———consideration (H. Res. 369), H6219 [21JY]
Appointments
Conferees: H.R. 3199, reauthorize and improve, S9579 [29JY], H10090 [9NO], H10160 [14NO]
Articles and editorials
Better Patriot Act, S13465 [13DE]
More Time Needed To Forge Better Bill, S13465 [13DE]
Patriot Act Renewal—Take Time To Do It Right, S13466 [13DE]
Patriot Second Act, S8224 [13JY]
Preserving the Patriot Act, H11536 [14DE]
Qualms About Anti-Terror Law Unite the Left and Right, S13564 [14DE]
Real Green Mountain Patriot, S13564 [14DE]
Repealing Patriotism, S13467 [13DE]
Take the Time—Congress Has No Need To Rush Through Patriot Act Debate, S13465 [13DE]
True Patriots—A Bipartisan Group of Senators Vows To Push for a Better USA Patriot Act, S13466 [13DE]
War on Terrorism—Critics of USA Patriot Act ``Compromise'' Deserve Further Hearing in Congress, S13466 [13DE]
Bills and resolutions
Civil liberties: clarify conditions for the interceptions of computer trespass communications (see S. 318), S1115 [8FE]
———extend sunsets (see H.R. 4647), H13188 [22DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (see S. 2082), S13451 [12DE] (see S. 2118), S13659 [15DE] (see S. 2167), S14317 [21DE] (see H.R. 4506), H11503 [13DE]
———limit use of surveillance and issuance of search warrants (see S. 737), S3278 [6AP]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes (see S. 317), S1115 [8FE]
House Rules: violations by the majority party relative to oversight hearings on Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization (see H. Res. 324), H4644 [16JN]
Intelligence services: make permanent, reauthorize, and clarify certain provisions of law providing additional investigative tools necessary to protect national security (see S. 1266), S6741 [16JN]
Law enforcement: limit authority to delay notice of search warrants (see S. 316), S1115 [8FE]
National security: restore civil liberties under the first amendment, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and other law enforcement and privacy laws (see H.R. 1502), H1844 [6AP]
Public safety officers: change manner of allocation of first responder grant funds (see H.R. 1093), H982 [3MR]
Reauthorize and improve (see S. 1389), S8217 [13JY] (see H.R. 3199), H5637 [11JY]
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199): consideration (see H. Res. 369), H6204 [20JY]
———consideration of conference report (see H. Res. 595), H11502 [13DE]
Chronologies
Reauthorization oversight: Committee on the Judiciary (House), H4646 [16JN], H6232 [21JY]
Cloture motions
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199): conference report, S13546 [14DE], S13719 [16DE]
Conference reports
Reauthorize and Improve (H.R. 3199), H11279-H11310 [8DE]
Factsheets
Oversight Activities: Committee on the Judiciary (House), H4645 [16JN], H6233 [21JY]
Letters
Delayed-notice search warrants provisions: William E. Moschella, Dept. of Justice, S8225, S8227, S8228 [13JY]
Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes: Lynn E. Bradley, American Library Association, S6081 [6JN]
———William E. Moschella, Dept. of Justice, H4535 [15JN]
Reauthorize and improve: 9/11 Families for a Secure America (organization), S13644 [15DE]
———Senator Levin, S13715 [16DE]
———Senator Specter, Committee on the Judiciary (Senate), S13441, S13442 [12DE]
———several Senators, S13440 [12DE], S13622 [15DE]
Lists
Abuses of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act: Committee on the Judiciary (House) Democratic staff, H6224 [21JY]
Motions
House Rules: violations by the majority party relative to oversight hearings on Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization (H. Res. 324), H4649 [16JN]
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), H6306 [21JY], H10084 [9NO]
———conference report, H11542 [14DE]
Papers
Should Postal lnspectors Have More Power Than Federal Terrorism Investigators? Senate Republican Policy Committee, S6147-S6149 [7JN]
Petitions and memorials
Idaho: Security and Freedom Enhancement (SAFE) Act, S13624 [15DE]
Proposals
House Rules violations by the majority party relative to oversight hearings on Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization, H4414 [14JN]
Remarks in House
Aviation: extend existing statute declaring interference with the operation of a passenger aircraft a Federal crime to all aircraft, H6294, H6295 [21JY]
Capital punishment: provide the death penalty for certain terrorism related crimes and make other modifications of law relating to the penalty of death, H6286, H6287 [21JY]
Civil liberties: extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, H11515-H11520, H11522, H11523 [14DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (H.R. 4506), H11533 [14DE], E2511 [13DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2167), H13179-H13181 [22DE]
———extend sunsets (H.R. 4647), H13178 [22DE]
———limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, H6213 [21JY]
———modify sunsets on wiretap authority, library and bookseller records, and lone wolf provisions, H10084, H10107 [9NO], H10360 [16NO], E2325 [10NO]
———prohibit Federal investigation of citizens for alleged criminal conduct based solely on membership in nonviolent political organizations or participation in other lawful political activities, H6295-H6297 [21JY]
Courts: allow victims of terrorist attacks who obtain civil judgments against terrorist organizations to attach the assets of the organization for compensatory damages, H6290-H6292 [21JY]
———establish streamlined procedures for collateral review of mixed petitions, amendments, and defaulted claims, E2639 [22DE]
———require timely notification to the issuing judge of any changes in the location of roving wiretaps, H6252-H6254 [21JY]
Dept. of Justice: require annual report on use or development of data-mining technology by Federal agencies, H6274-H6276 [21JY]
Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines, H11509, H11510, H11517, H11519, H11531, H11535, H11539 [14DE]
Executive Office of the President: modify authority of the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board relative to terrorism protection, H6218 [21JY]
FBI: ensure that recipients of national security letters may not be penalized for violating non-disclosure orders relative to mental competance, undue stress, threat of bodily harm, or discharge from employment, H6260-H6262 [21JY]
———require Director's approval of requests for library or bookstore records, H6249-H6252 [21JY]
Firearms: provide penalties for those who sell .50 caliber sniper weapons to known terrorists, H6294 [21JY]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, H4534-H4542 [15JN], H6214, H6216-H6218, H6222-H6247, H6295, H6296 [21JY], H11516, H11527 [14DE], E1640 [27JY]
House of Representatives: legislative priorities, H4145 [7JN]
House Rules: violations by the majority party relative to oversight hearings on Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization (H. Res. 324), H4565, H4566, H4567, H4644-H4650 [16JN]
Intelligence services: assess validity of pre-war analysis concerning rationale for use of Armed Forces in Iraq, H11518 [14DE]
———strengthen protections of civil liberties in the exercise of foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, E2325 [10NO]
Iraq: develop and implement a plan for withdrawal of Armed Forces, H11518 [14DE]
Law enforcement: expand wire-tap authority to include offenses that are terrorism related, H6276, H6277 [21JY]
———limit authority to delay notice of search warrants, H4525, H4526 [15JN]
———limit authority to delay notice of search warrants and establish certain reporting requirements, H6263-H6265 [21JY]
National security: allow recipients of national security letters to consult an attorney and to challenge such letters in court, H6258-H6260 [21JY]
———ensure greater security for U.S. seaports, H11518 [14DE]
———establish reasonable procedural protections for the use of national security letters, H6222, H6223, H6226, H6230, H6239 [21JY]
———provide faster and smarter funding for first responders, H6302, H6303 [21JY], H11520 [14DE]
———reduce crime and terrorism at U.S. seaports, H6280-H6282 [21JY]
———reform issuance of national security letters, H11527 [14DE]
———restore civil liberties under the first amendment, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and other law enforcement and privacy laws, E1313 [22JN]
———restore civil liberties under the first amendment, the Immigration and Nationality Act, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, and other law enforcement and privacy laws (H.R. 1502), H11537 [14DE], E588 [7AP]
Public safety officers: change manner of allocation of first responder grant funds (H.R. 1093), H973 [3MR]
Reauthorize, H4492 [15JN]
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), H5746 [13JY], H5969, H6081-H6087 [19JY], H6110, H6114 [20JY], H6210, H6221-H6269, H6273-H6309, H6315-H6323 [21JY], H6332, H6344 [22JY], H6434 [26JY], H10084 [9NO], H10360 [16NO], E1578, E1583, E1584, E1585 [22JY], E1594, E1600, E1601 [25JY], E1620, E1640, E1647 [27JY], E1713, E1719, E1732 [29JY], E1747 [2SE]
———amendment process, H5882 [14JY]
———conference report, H11337 [13DE], H11509, H11523-H11544 [14DE], H12056 [17DE], E2549, E2556 [15DE], E2572 [17DE], E2633, E2639 [22DE]
———consideration (H. Res. 369), H6210-H6220 [21JY], E1577 [22JY]
———consideration of conference report (H. Res. 595), H11515-H11523 [14DE]
———corrections in engrossment, H6309 [21JY]
———motion to instruct conferees, H10084-H10090, H10107 [9NO], E2325 [10NO]
———motion to recommit, H6306, H6307 [21JY]
Sunsets: include, H6306, H6307 [21JY]
Terrorism: clarify definition of domestic terrorism relative to asset forfeiture, H6262, H6263 [21JY]
———combat financing, H6288-H6290 [21JY], H11539 [14DE]
———encourage more vigorous investigation and prosecution of drug crimes committed to provide material support to terrorist organizations, H6292-H6294 [21JY], H11538 [14DE]
Tobacco products: combat illicit trafficking to eliminate financial support that traffickers provide to terrorist organizations, H6284 [21JY]
Transportation: increase penalties for terrorist attacks against railroad carriers and mass transportation systems on land, on water, or through the air, H6214, H6255, H6256 [21JY]
———increase rail and public transportation security, H11517 [14DE]
Remarks in Senate
Civil liberties: clarify conditions for the interceptions of computer trespass communications (S. 318), S1133 [8FE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, S13564 [14DE], S13619, S13620, S13624, S13626, S13629 [15DE], S14009 [19DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2082), S13453 [12DE], S13463-S13467 [13DE], S13692, S13701, S13708-S13721, S13768, S13769 [16DE], S13995-S14000, S14004 [19DE], S14085-S14089, S14132 [20DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2082), unanimous-consent request, S13720 [16DE], S13996 [19DE], S14084, S14085, S14088 [20DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2167), S14234, S14275-S14281 [21DE]
———extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act (S. 2167), unanimous-consent agreement, S14233 [21DE], S14424 [22DE]
———limit use of surveillance and issuance of search warrants, S13557, S13560 [14DE], S13619, S13620, S13623, S13624, S13626 [15DE], S13711, S13714, S13716, S13718, S13721 [16DE], S13998, S13999 [19DE], S14165-S14167 [20DE]
Courts: use of administrative subpoenas in terrorism investigations, S6080 [6JN], S6147 [7JN], S9558 [29JY]
Drugs: respond to the illegal production, distribution, and use of methamphetamines, S13517, S13521 [14DE], S13712 [16DE], S14234 [21DE]
Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes, S6081 [6JN], S13526, S13555 [14DE], S14001, S14008, S14009 [19DE], S14111 [20DE]
———limit Federal access to library, bookseller, and other personal records for foreign intelligence and counterintelligence purposes (S. 317), S1131-S1133 [8FE]
Intelligence services: strengthen protections of civil liberties in the exercise of foreign intelligence surveillance authorities, S13463 [13DE], S13524 [14DE]
Law enforcement: limit authority to delay notice of search warrants (S. 316), S1130 [8FE]
National security: allow recipients of national security letters to consult an attorney and to challenge such letters in court, S13557 [14DE], S13619, S13620, S13626 [15DE]
———ensure greater security for U.S. seaports, S14234 [21DE]
———reform issuance of national security letters, S10582 [28SE], S13525, S13556, S13559 [14DE], S13619, S13626 [15DE]
Reauthorize, S6080-S6082 [6JN], S6147 [7JN]
Reauthorize and improve, S10582 [28SE]
Reauthorize and improve (H.R. 3199), S9558-S9579 [29JY], S9788 [8SE], S13297-S13300, S13302-S13304, S13328 [18NO]
———conference report, S13438-S13443 [12DE], S13462-S13467, S13471, S13473-S13478 [13DE], S13517, S13519-S13521, S13524, S13531-S13533, S13546-S13561, S13564 [14DE], S13608-S13627, S13629, S13640-S13644 [15DE], S13690-S13692, S13699-S13701, S13708-S13721, S13736-S13740, S13768, S13769 [16DE], S13949-S13954, S13957-S13959, S13962 [17DE], S13995-S14004, S14006-S14014 [19DE], S14099-S14101, S14111, S14112, S14132, S14135-S14138, S14165-S14167 [20DE], S14234 [21DE]
———insert S. 1389 language in lieu, S9558 [29JY]
Reauthorize and improve (S. 1389), S8222-S8224 [13JY], S14003 [19DE]
———unanimous-consent request, S13996 [19DE]
Sunsets: repeal, S13709 [16DE]
Reports
Committee Oversight of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act From October 2001 to November 2005, H11525 [14DE]
Reports filed
Consideration of Conference Report on H.R. 3199, Reauthorize and Improve: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 595) (H. Rept. 109-343), H11502 [13DE]
Consideration of H.R. 3199, Reauthorize and Improve: Committee on Rules (House) (H. Res. 369) (H. Rept. 109-178), H6204 [20JY]
Make Permanent, Reauthorize, and Clarify Certain Provisions of Law Providing Additional Investigative Tools Necessary To Protect National Security: Committee on Intelligence (Senate, Select) (S. 1266) (S. Rept. 109-85), S6740 [16JN]
Reauthorize and Improve: Committee of Conference (H.R. 3199) (H. Rept. 109-333), H11326 [8DE]
———Committee on Intelligence (House, Select) (H.R. 3199) (H. Rept. 109-174), H5962 [18JY]
———Committee on the Judiciary (House) (H.R. 3199) (H. Rept. 109-174), H5962 [18JY]
———Committee on the Judiciary (Senate) (S. 1389), S8745 [22JY]
Texts of
H. Res. 324, House Rules violations by majority party relative to hearings on Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required To Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act reauthorization, H4644 [16JN]
H. Res. 369, consideration of H.R. 3199, reauthorize and improve, H6210 [21JY]
H. Res. 595, consideration of conference report on H.R. 3199, reauthorize and improve, H11515 [14DE]
H.R. 3199, reauthorize and improve, S9562-S9579 [29JY], S9599-S9605 [1SE], H6247-H6249 [21JY]
H.R. 4647, extend sunsets, H13178 [22DE]
S. 316, Reasonable Notice and Search Act, S1131 [8FE]
S. 317, Library, Bookseller, and Personal Records Privacy Act, S1133 [8FE]
S. 318, Computer Trespass Clarification Act, S1134 [8FE]
S. 1389, reauthorize and improve, S8230-S8233 [13JY]
S. 2082, extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, S13454 [12DE]
S. 2167, extend sunsets and lone wolf provisions of Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act, S14281 [21DE], S14424 [22DE], H13180 [22DE]