Thursday, July 25, 2013

Congress Votes To Keep Spying On Americans While Approving $598.3 Billion Defense Budget




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Congress Votes To Keep Spying On Americans While Approving $598.3 Billion Defense Budget



The House of Representatives approved a $598.3 billion defense appropriations bill on July 24, while defeating an amendment to the bill that would have limited the National Security Agency’s collection of Americans’ phone records. The defense spending bill passed 315 to 109. The House had its first floor debate over NSA’s blanket collection of Americans’ telephone records. The Amash-Conyers amendment—and only the Amash-Conyers amendment— would haved ended the indiscriminate collection of those records. The amendment called for limits to the government’s collection of records under Section 215 of the Patriot Act to those records that pertain to a person who is subject to an investigation under that provision.






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