Able to find the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican lock, Senate Democrats abandoned proposals to reform the Patriot Act and voted late Wednesday to extend the main parts of the controversial security law in 2011.
. The USA Patriot Act Sunset Extension Act should be an example of what Democrats and Republicans can do when they work together, but I knew that some Republican senators oppose the adoption of national security with great care, supervision and standards of judicial review this legislation .. "The bipartisan majority in the Senate Judiciary Committee advanced Senate compromise legislation in the month of examining more than four.
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