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handle is hein.crs/crsmthaaaok0001 and id is 1 raw text is: Order Code RS22196 July 15, 2005 CRS Report for Congress Received through the CRS Web USA PATRIOT Act Reauthorization Proposals and Related Matters in Brief Charles Doyle Senior Specialist American Law Division Summary Several sections of the USA PATRIOT Act, P.L. 107-56, that expand federal law enforcement or foreign intelligence information gathering powers, are scheduled to sunset on December 31, 2005. Legislation has been introduced in both the House and the Senate to make these expiring provisions or some of them permanent, e.g., H.R. 3199 (Representative Sensenbrenner), S. 1266 (Senator Roberts), S. 1389 (Senator Specter). Other proposals would enlarge the list of expiring USA PATRIOT Acts sections, rendering temporary various, now permanent sections, e.g., H.R. 1526 (Representative Otter), S. 737 (Senator Craig). Many of the proposals modify expiring sections before reauthorizing them, or reauthorize related temporary provisions enacted in other legislation, or amend or make temporary certain of the USA PATRIOT Act's permanent sections, or create or modify other related provisions dealing with law enforcement and foreign intelligence information gathering authority. This is a short background discussion of some of these proposals and brief summary of their content. Related CRS Reports include CRS Report RL32186, USA PATRIOT Act Sunset: Provisions That Expire on December 31, 2005; CRS Report RS21441, Libraries and the USA PATRIOT Act); CRS Report RL32907, Security and Freedom Ensured Act (SAFE Act) (H.R. 1526) and Security and Freedom Enhancement Act (SAFE Act)(S. 737): Section by Section Analysis; CRS Report RL30465, Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act: An Overview of the Statutory Framework and Recent Judicial Decisions; CRS Report RL32880, Administrative Subpoenas and National Security Letters in Criminal and Foreign Intelligence Investigations: Background and Proposed Adjustments. A lion's share of the proposals relate to two statutes governing information collection, the Electronic Communications Privacy Act (ECPA)(18 U.S.C. 2510-2522, 2701-2712, 3121-3127) and the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA), 50 U.S.C. 1801-1862. ECPA has three sets of general prohibitions accompanied by law enforcement exceptions that operate under judicial supervision. They involve: (1) the interception of wire, oral or electronic communications (wiretapping), 18 U.S.C. 2510- 2522; (2) access to the content of stored electronic communications and to Congressional Research Service + The Library of Congress

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