Patriot Act News

With three Patriot Act provisions set to expire at the end of this year, the Senate Judiciary Committee has the chance to restrict the federal government's freedom to probe Americans beleived to be terrorists.

Charles Grassley, R-Iowa, has doubts a health care reform bill will be delivered by the holiday.

US Senate candidates : Martha Coakley, Michael Capuano, Stephen Pagliuca, and Alan Khazei awaited their debate last night.

Politics in Massachusetts is a blood sport. With less than a week to go before party primaries in the race to fill Edward M. Kennedy's Senate seat, the contest is getting feisty.

Key components in the USA Patriot Act are set to expire at the end of the year, but President Barack Obama is seeking to extend them , reversing his stark opposition in the past to the same provisions.

This article originally appeared in SLJ's Extra Helping. Sign up now! By Lauren Barack -- School Library Journal, 11/30/2009 2:00:00 PM When it comes to the Patriot Act, there's little dissension among librarians.

Age: 57 Address: Somerville Political party: Democrat Occupation: U.S. representative, 8th District Education: Bachelor's degree, Dartmouth College; law degree, Boston College Experience: Somerville mayor, alderman Web site: www.mikecapuano.com If he wins a seat in the U.S. Senate, U.S. Rep.

For President Obama, big decisions and critical action looms during the last month of 2009.

Moderator Rachelle Cohen met with candidates Stephen Pagliuca, Representative Michael Capuano, Alan Khazei, and Martha Coakley at Suffolk University Law School.

Rushed into law by Congress just weeks after Sept. 11, 2001 three controversial provisions of the Patriot Act granting officials far-reaching surveillance and seizure powers in the name of national security, are due to expire this New Year's Eve.

The Patriot Act passed in the wake of the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. It was intended to enable law enforcement officials to track down and punish those responsible for the terrorist attacks and to protect against any similar strikes against our nation.

High Court to Hear PATRIOT Act Challenge Antiwar.com by William Fisher, November 29, 2009 The US Supreme Court has agreed to hear a case challenging a law that critics say treats human rights advocates as ... Who is Adam Schiff? Human Rights info 101 Examiner.com As a member of this committee, Schiff serves on the Subcommittee on Terrorism, Human ...

Marilyn Diaz, an employee at Cash for Gold's Route 59 location in Aurora, weighs the gold a customer wishes to sell.

I write to express my support for Congressman Mike Capuano in the Democratic primary for the U.S. Senate seat vacated by the late Sen.

Paul Clements still is waiting for someone to tap him on the shoulder. Clements, the Sparta resident who was jailed for several weeks a year ago under the auspices of the PATRIOT Act stemming from a 2002 vehicle stop producing less than a joint's worth of marijuana, still waits for paperwork leaving the "absolute limbo" behind.

As we count our blessings on Thanksgiving, let's remember why we can do so in safety.

Raising the U.S. governmenta s $12.2 trillion borrowing limit tops an agenda of must-pass legislation that imperils Senate Democratsa ability to pass a health-care bill this year.

POLITICS-US: Obama Quietly Backs Patriot Act Provisions William Fisher NEW YORK, 23 Nov - With the health care debate preoccupying the mainstream media, it has gone virtually unreported that the Barack Obama administration is quietly supporting renewal of provisions of the George W. Bush-era USA Patriot Act that civil libertarians say infringe on ...

The Georgian Parliament is to discuss adopting a Patriot Act, which its authors say curbs the terrorist threat to Georgia.

Nov. 17, 2009 - The Financial Crimes Enforcement Network is taking comments until Dec.