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      "title": "USA PATRIOT Act: Background and Comparison of House- and Senate-Approved Reauthorization and Related Legislative Action",
      "summary": "The House and Senate have each passed USA PATRIOT Reauthorization Acts,  H.R. 3199  and  S. 1389 . Both make permanent most of the expiring USA PATRIOT Act\nsections, occasionally in modified form. After amending two of the more controversial expiring\nsections, 206 (roving Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) wiretaps) and 215 (FISA tangible\nitem access orders (business records-library records)), they postpone their expiration date, S.\n 1389 until December 31, 2009; H.R.  3199 until December 31, 2015. Both\naddress questions raised as to the constitutionality of various \u201cnational security letter\u201d\n(NSL) statutes\nby providing for review, enforcement and exceptions to the attendant confidentiality requirements\nin more explicit terms. S.  1389 limits its NSL adjustments to the statute that affords\nfederal foreign intelligence investigators access to communications records; H.R.  3199\namends the communications, and the financial institution and credit bureau NSL statutes. \n \n  H.R. 3199  contains a substantial number of sections that have no counterpart in\n S. 1389 , although many of them have been passed or reported by committee in one\nHouse or the other. Its treatment of seaport security, for example, is similar in many respects to that\nof  S. 378 , the Reducing Crime and Terrorism at America\u2019s Seaports Act of 2005, as\nreported by the Senate Judiciary Committee. Its first responder grant program sections are virtually\nidentical to legislation which the House sent to the Senate as  H.R. 1544 . And its death\npenalty sections are reminiscent of sections found in  H.R. 10  in the 108th Congress as\nreported the House Judiciary Committee. \n  H.R. 3199  alone permits wiretapping in the investigation of a greater range of\nfederal crimes. It alone expands the use of forfeiture authority against money laundering particularly\nin terrorism cases. An abbreviated version of this report is available as  CRS Report RS22216 ,\n USA\nPATRIOT Act Reauthorization in Brief .",
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