Headline Roundup May 20, 2015
Rand Paul NSA Filibuster
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Sen. Rand Paul is at it again.
More than two years after a 13 hour filibuster, the Kentucky senator and 2016 GOP presidential contender is back on the Senate floor. This time, he's protesting the National Security Agency's dragnet surveillance programs targeting Americans.
"There comes a time in the history of nations when fear and complacency allow power to accumulate and liberty and privacy to suffer. That time is now and I will not let the Patriot act, the most unpatriotic of acts go unchallenged," Paul said at the opening...
New York Times (News)
Just how long can Rand Paul talk?
The Kentucky senator and Republican presidential candidate took to the Senate floor early Wednesday afternoon with plans to talk and talk — and talk — to highlight his concerns over reauthorizing portions of the Patriot Act.
The legislation his talk-a-thon could delay, the U.S.A. Freedom Act, would actually
Kentucky Sen. Rand Paul has begun his filibuster of the renewal of the Patriot Act on the Senate floor.
Paul had vowed to do everything he could to make sure the 2001 Bush administration-era law allowing for sweeping surveillance of citizens would be dismantled.
The Kentucky Republican argued that the programs unfairly limit liberties of all Americans and give too much power to the government through the National Security Administratio
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