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Feingold reads constitution on Senate floor

by Open-Publishing - Thursday 2 March 2006
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Senator Russ Feingold (D-WI) has read the text of the U.S. constitution to the U.S. Senate after the body voted 95-4 approving 3 amendments to 16 controversial provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act, set for renewal.

Feingold spent 34 minutes sharing the document with his fellow Senators, stopping to repeat the Fourth Amendment, which he feels the law violates.

The Fourth Amendment reads:

"The right of the people to be secure in their persons, houses, papers, and effects, against unreasonable searches and seizures, shall not be violated, and no Warrants shall issue, but upon probable cause, supported by Oath or affirmation, and particularly describing the place to be searched, and the persons or things to be seized.
The Senate has yet to decide the fate of the overall extension of the Act, and is set to consider more Amendments designed to protect civil liberties.

Senator Jim Talent (R-MO) followed Feingold’s reading by heralding the recent Hall of Fame election of Negro National League baseball players, attributing the faster pace of modern ball playing to professional sports integration.

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  • well the 4th amendment has been broken by bush thats for sure, but what is even clearer than that is the 6th amendment that requires the president to honour all signatory treaties that the usa is apart of. and yes mr. attorney WEASEL GENERAL gonzalez THAT QUAINT GENEVA CONVENTION IS A TREATY SIGNED BY THE USA. THESE SCUM SHOULD ALL BE IN LEAVENSWORTH

  • this doesnt make sense to me and i need to do it for a projec =[

  • Hey,Mr. Feingold.....Why don’t you tell America about your "tribe’s" complete control of our media
    .....and the fact that an incredible number of Bushista advisors,policy makers,legal advisors are Zionists too!!...pearle,pipes,wolfowicz,abramoff,chertoff,dov zackheim,negroponte,ari fleischer,feith,tenet,IRVING LIBBEY,....HELL here’s thePARTIAL tip of the iceberg ........................................U.S. Senate (10% 0f the total Senate)
    Senator Party/State E-mail
    Sen.Barbara Boxer (D-CA) SENATOR_BOXER@SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Russell Feingold (D-WI) RUSSELL_FEINGOLD@FEINGOLD.SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Dianne Feinstein (D-CA) SENATOR_FEINSTEIN@SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Herb Kohl (D-WI) SENATOR_KOHL@SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) FRANK_LAUTENBERG@LAUTENBERG.SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Carl Levin (D-MI) SENATOR_LEVIN@SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Joseph Lieberman (D-CT) SENATOR_LIBERMAN@LIBERMAN.SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Arlen Specter (R-PA) SENATOR_SPECTER@SPECTER.SENATE.GOV
    Sen.Paul Wellstone (D-MN) SENATOR_WELLSTONE@SENATE.GOV
    Sen Ron Wyden (D-OR) NO eMail address
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    Hon.Gary Ackerman (D-NY) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Howard Berman (D-CA) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Ben Cardin (D-MD) CARDIN@HR.HOUSE.GOV
    Hon.Peter Deutsch (D-FL) PDEUTSCH@HR.HOUSE.GOV
    Hon.Eliot Engel (D-NY) ENGELINE@HR.HOUSE.GOV
    Hon.Bob Filner (D-CA) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Jon Fox (R-PA) JONFOX@HR.HOUSE
    Hon.Barney Frank* (D-MA) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Martin Frost (D-TX) FROST@HR.HOUSE.GOV
    Hon.Sam Gejdenson (D-CT) BOZRAH@HR.HOUSE.GOV
    Hon.Ben Gilman (R-NY) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Jane Harman (D-CA) JHARMAN@HR.HOUSE.GOV
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    Hon.Nita Lowey (D-NY) NITAMAIL@HR.HOUSE.GOV
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    Hon.Bernie Sanders (I-VT) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
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    Hon.Robert Wexler (D-FL) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    Hon.Sidney Yates (D-IL) NO eMail address AVAILABLE
    HMMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM???They seem to be in control positions on ALL sides!!!!