jct74
02-15-2011, 03:05 PM
Good article here. Rand is once again drawing lots of attention to himself, in a very good way!
The Senate has found a new leading critic of the PATRIOT Act: Kentucky's Rand Paul.
Paul doesn't agree with many of his colleagues on a host of issues--he wants to end all foreign aid, for instance, and supports congressional term limits--but as debate has heated up over the past week about the expiring PATRIOT Act provisions, Paul has been the only senator to speak out against extending them.
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It's tough to know where other individual senators stand on these provisions. The last time they were set to expire, in February 2010, the Senate extended them for a year via voice vote--which means no senator objected to their extension, and no recorded vote was taken. Leahy had attempted to attach essentially the same restrictions to last year's extension, without success.
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But you don't see other senators sending letters, putting out press releases, or generally speaking out against the law's existence--not in the same way Paul has since taking up the anti-PATRIOT Act crusade.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/rand-paul-vs-the-patriot-act/71323/
The Senate has found a new leading critic of the PATRIOT Act: Kentucky's Rand Paul.
Paul doesn't agree with many of his colleagues on a host of issues--he wants to end all foreign aid, for instance, and supports congressional term limits--but as debate has heated up over the past week about the expiring PATRIOT Act provisions, Paul has been the only senator to speak out against extending them.
...
It's tough to know where other individual senators stand on these provisions. The last time they were set to expire, in February 2010, the Senate extended them for a year via voice vote--which means no senator objected to their extension, and no recorded vote was taken. Leahy had attempted to attach essentially the same restrictions to last year's extension, without success.
...
But you don't see other senators sending letters, putting out press releases, or generally speaking out against the law's existence--not in the same way Paul has since taking up the anti-PATRIOT Act crusade.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2011/02/rand-paul-vs-the-patriot-act/71323/