Patriot Act News: Frist and Feingold Fencing

Wednesday, December 14, 2005

Frist and Feingold Fencing

From National Journal:

Senate Majority Leader Frist today announced he will file a cloture motion on the conference report on legislation to reauthorize 14 provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act when that report arrives from the House.

[CAIR Editorial Note: From the U.S. Senate Glossary: “cloture - The only procedure by which the Senate can vote to place a time limit on consideration of a bill or other matter, and thereby overcome a filibuster. Under the cloture rule (Rule XXII), the Senate may limit consideration of a pending matter to 30 additional hours, but only by vote of three-fifths of the full Senate, normally 60 votes.”]

The report should arrive sometime later today…

With the cloture motion, the Senate is expected to debate the bill Friday.

"We have substantial support on the Democratic side and significant support on the Republican side," Feingold said. "Significant means potentially having the support to prevail [over a cloture motion]," he added.

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