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On the recordJuly 16, 2013
I have been the author of the PATRIOT Act and the PATRIOT Act reauthorization of 2006.
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F. Sensenbrenner
Republican · Wisconsin

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Sensenbrenner discusses his role in creating the PATRIOT Act.

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