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Engel Statement on Patriot Act

Date: July 22, 2005
Location: Washington, DC
Issues: National Security Civil Liberties and Civil Rights


ENGEL STATEMENT ON PATRIOT ACT
July 22, 2005

Washington, D.C. - Today, Rep. Eliot Engel (D-NY) released the following statement:

"After 9/11, I voted for the Patriot Act, but said that it needed to be reviewed in the future. Because the Republicans not only left in sections where the bill over-reaches into our civil liberties, but went further than the first Patriot Act by making these questionable provisions permanent, I voted against it. We must not limit our rights in the name of protecting them."

http://www.house.gov/apps/list/press/ny17_engel/pr072205.html

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