Senate Vote Signals That Patriot Act Will Be Renewed

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The Senate brushed aside an attempt to block renewal of the antiterrorism law known as the USA Patriot Act today, voting 96 to 3 against changes urged by Senator Russell D. Feingold, the act's most persistent critic.

Mr. Feingold, Democrat of Wisconsin, said he wants to make the Senate debate several more days on the bill, and under the Senate's rules he can do so. But today's vote signaled that, once Mr. Feingold has exhausted his moves, the act will indeed be renewed by the Senate before its scheduled expiration on March 10.

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/02/16/politics/16cnd-nsa.html?ei=5094&en=d0b1fa041b500cc9&hp=&ex=1140152400&adxnnl=1&partner=homepage&adxnnlx=1140120206-IqUw0nXJUCVO3LQKquGRVA


"brushed aside" as in brushed aside our concerns and our rights.

Only Feingold, Byrd and Jeffords voted no.

Edited since I forgot to put in the link