Senator McConnell on NSA Surveillance
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged colleagues to support cloture on the House-passed USA FREEDOM Act, w…
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said that phone records would be less safe under the House-passed USA FREEDOM Act. bill that has private phone … read more
Senator Susan Collins (R-ME) said that phone records would be less safe under the House-passed USA FREEDOM Act. bill that has private phone companies keep the records instead of the National Security Agency (NSA). Senator Collins said this means that thousands of private sector workers would have access phone and data records, pointing out that the private sector is regularly hacked. Senators Patrick Leahy (D-VT) and Mike Lee (R-UT) also spoke, saying the Senate version is a good bipartisan compromise. close
Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) urged colleagues to support cloture on the House-passed USA FREEDOM Act, w…
Senators spoke about the House-passed USA Patriot Act following a vote that invoked cloture on the bill. The vote also l…
Senators Mitch McConnell (R-KY), Harry Reid (D-NV), and Patrick Leahy (D-VT) spoke about national security and its relat…
Senators debated H.R. 2048, the USA Freedom Act, a House-passed bill to extend expiring Patriot Act provisions related t…