PlainBillCongress, translated.Legislation. Context. Public interest.Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 195) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S3314)
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Version 00 · Introduced in Senate · May 14, 2015
Amends the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and the Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 to extend until July 31, 2015, expiring provisions of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (FISA) concerning: (1) FISA court orders approving roving electronic surveillance, (2) requests for FISA court orders that allow the government to require the production of business records and other tangible things for foreign intelligence and international terrorism investigations, and (3) a revised definition of "agent of a foreign power" that allows surveillance of individual non-U.S. persons who engage in international terrorism or preparatory activities (commonly referred to as the "lone wolf" provision). (Currently, such provisions are scheduled to expire on June 1, 2015.)
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Sen. McConnell, Mitch [R-KY] · R–KY
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Motion by Senator McConnell to reconsider the vote by which cloture was not invoked on the motion to proceed to the measure (Record Vote No. 195) entered in Senate. (consideration: CR S3314)
Cloture on the motion to proceed to the measure not invoked in Senate by Yea-Nay Vote. 45 - 54. Record Vote Number: 195. (consideration: CR S3314; text: CR S3314)
Senate roll call 195 · Individual votesCloture motion on the motion to proceed to the measure presented in Senate. (consideration: CR S3201; text: CR S3201)
Motion to proceed to consideration of measure made in Senate. (consideration: CR S3201; text: CR S3201)
Read the second time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under General Orders. Calendar No. 86.
Introduced in the Senate. Read the first time. Placed on Senate Legislative Calendar under Read the First Time.
Introduced in Senate
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