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They are not the only potential wrecking-ball rig operators, though: there is also the McConnell faction, which seems unmoved by the Second Circuit decision and continues to act as though it's enough to renew Section 215.
Politically, the consensus that this level of surveillance (at least of American citizens) is necessary appears to be breaking down.As The Economist went to press on May 21st, Congress was in a fraught debate about whether and how to renew Section 215 of the Patriot Act a law passed in the immediate aftermath of the attacks of September 11th 2001 which was due to expire.
There are not the votes in the House of Representatives to renew Section 215".
READ: The congressional battle to renew Section 702 surveillance.
And for the first time since the Snowden leaks about the scope of the NSA's surveillance programs, Congress will have to decide by the end of the year whether to renew Section 702.
He argued that Congress was well within its rights to renew Section 5 for another 25 years and had extensively studied the issue before voting overwhelmingly to do so.
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Congress renewed Section 5 in 2006.
It also stated that Congress renewed Section 5 unanimously.
Congress exercised its constitutional authority in carefully and deliberately renewing Section 5.
Acknowledging the overwhelming vote by which Congress renewed Section 5 in 2006 – 98-to-0 in the Senate and 390-to-33 in the House – Mr. Will writes that "obviously, the political class's piety about the act has extinguished thought about its necessity," therefore requiring "active judicial engagement" to accomplish what politics cannot or will not.
The renewed section, which is actually more like the next step in previously announced projects, comes courtesy of deals the Google company struck with U.S. studios like Lionsgate, MGM and Sony Pictures and UK service Blinkbox.
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