Dick Durbin said "Is the Senator from Nevada aware of the fact that the President said today, at his press conference: In a war on terror, we cannot afford to be without this law [the PATRIOT Act] for a single moment. I ask the Senator from Nevada: Did the Senator from Nevada not ask unanimous consent to extend the PATRIOT Act as written for 3 months, and is it not true that when you made that request a few days ago, the Republican leader of the Senate objected to extending the PATRIOT Act for 3 months, after the revision of the law was held up here on the Senate floor?" @ PoliticalQuotes.com

On the recordDecember 19, 2005

Is the Senator from Nevada aware of the fact that the President said today, at his press conference: In a war on terror, we cannot afford to be without this law [the PATRIOT Act] for a single moment. I ask the Senator from Nevada: Did the Senator from Nevada not ask unanimous consent to extend the PATRIOT Act as written for 3 months, and is it not true that when you made that request a few days ago, the Republican leader of the Senate objected to extending the PATRIOT Act for 3 months, after the revision of the law was held up here on the Senate floor?

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Dick Durbin

Democratic · Illinois

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