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House Declines To Vote On Telecom Immunity

Posted by Soulskill on from the ain't-over-till-it's-over dept.

freedom_india alerts us to news that the House of Representatives declined to bring the surveillance reform bill to vote, prompting House Republicans to walk out in the middle of a session. The bill, recently passed by the Senate, includes retroactive immunity for the telecommunications companies who assisted with illegal domestic wiretaps. The walk-out comes after a proposal was shot down on Wednesday that would have extended the current legislation for another three weeks.

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  1. Re:Correction.... by Ranger96 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Are you saying that if the President was a Democrat, the republican congressmen would go so far as to impeach him for something as trivial as lying under oath? Fixed that for you
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    What has been will be again, what has been done will be done again; there is nothing new under the sun.-Ecclesiastes 1:9