US House Re-Authorized the PATRIOT Act House Democrats have slipped an unqualified  (?) renewal of the draconian PATRIOT Act into an emergency funding bill – voting  near-unanimously for sweeping surveillance carte blanche that was the basis for the notorious NSA program. A three-month reauthorization of the notorious PATRIOT Act was shoehorned into a last-minute continuing resolution (CR) funding the US government, bundling measures needed to avert yet another government shutdown with a continuation of the -intrusive surveillance powers passed after the 9/11 terror attacks. Democrats voted almost unanimously for it, granting the far-reaching surveillance capabilities to the very same president they’re trying to impeach. A roll-call vote on the bill was split exactly along party lines, with all 230 Democrats standing up for unconstitutional mass surveillance – including progressives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-New York) and Ilhan Omar (D-Minnesota), who spoke out against it earlier. Two other Democrats opted not to vote. Not only did Democrats unanimously stand for the bill, they backed the waiver of a rule that would have at least allowed members of  Congress to read it. Aside from renewing the PATRIOT Act for another three months and keeping Washington’s lights on, the bill hikes military pay and tosses extra funding to the Commerce Department and state highways. Republicans had hoped to pass a “clean” funding bill without  add-ons of any kind, so their opposition to the measure did not necessarily hinge on its inclusion of the surveillance provision. Still, the PATRIOT Act was born from a Republican administration and its rejection by the same party, 18 years later, suggests a dramatic shift in the US political landscape. . With impeachment in full swing, mainstream media carefully avoided using the phrase “PATRIOT Act” in their coverage of the vote,  aware that the measure that allowed the government to treat its citizens like terrorists doesn’t have many fans http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2019/roll629.xml?fbclid=IwAR2Tx-JCs6kzrZbCPfNfzhhUmmyoKWF5612pIopn1Vb5mgeWE1D9kxdEHhc unqualified renewal-means what? Im very disappointed here that this was not caught by trump. Invasion of our privacy. where is the MSM https://www.thelibertybeacon.com/while-all-eyes-were-on-impeachment-hearing-house-re-authorized-patriot-act/ https://www.wakingtimes.com/2019/11/21/while-all-eyes-were-on-impeachment-hearing-the-us-house-re-authorized-the-patriot-act/?fbclid=IwAR2ExBM6RMY6mgY3O9nylCJVpEBBXuzmzu83ppFZTskoeiXc2nbbIHiTgNE