After the September 11, 2001 attacks, Ashcroft was a key supporter of passage of the USA PATRIOT Act.

* 2001 – The United States passes the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act, stating that it would help detect and prosecute terrorism and other crimes.

The USA PATRIOT Act ( commonly known as the Patriot Act ) is an Act of the U. S. Congress that was signed into law by President George W. Bush on October 26, 2001.

The title of the act is a ten letter backronym ( USA PATRIOT ) that stands for Uniting ( and ) Strengthening America ( by ) Providing Appropriate Tools Required ( to ) Intercept ( and ) Obstruct Terrorism Act of 2001.

The act also expanded the definition of terrorism to include domestic terrorism, thus enlarging the number of activities to which the USA PATRIOT Act ’ s expanded law enforcement powers can be applied.

On May 26, 2011, President Barack Obama used an Autopen to sign a four-year extension of three key provisions in the USA PATRIOT Act while he was in France: roving wiretaps, searches of business records ( the " library records provision "), and conducting surveillance of " lone wolves " — individuals suspected of terrorist-related activities not linked to terrorist groups.

This was introduced to the House as the Provide Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism ( PATRIOT ) Act of 2001, and was later passed by the House as the Uniting and Strengthening America ( USA ) Act ( H. R.

The final bill, the USA PATRIOT Act was introduced into the House on October 23 and incorporated H. R.

Due to its controversial nature, a number of bills were proposed to amend the USA PATRIOT Act.

The draft, which was circulated to 10 divisions of the Department of Justice, proposed to make further extensive modifications to extend the USA PATRIOT Act.

It primarily made amendments to FISA, and the ECPA, and many of the most controversial aspects of the USA PATRIOT Act reside in this title.

In a resolution passed on June 29, 2005, they stated that " Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act allows the government to secretly request and obtain library records for large numbers of individuals without any reason to believe they are involved in illegal activity.

* On October 26, 2001 U. S. President George W. Bush signs the USA PATRIOT Act into law.

* USA PATRIOT Act, an act of federal legislation in the United States passed in response to the attacks of September 11

Though it is allowed by the USA PATRIOT Act, it is considered by many a questionable practice, if not an all-out violation of civil liberties.

Protesting " a pall of repression " and referring specifically to the USA PATRIOT Act as emblematic of that repression, it accuses the executive branch of usurping " the roles and functions of the other branches of government ," and continues, " We must take the highest officers of the land seriously when they talk of a war that will last a generation and when they speak of a new domestic order.

In October 2002, Carrboro was among the first municipalities in the South to adopt resolutions opposing the Iraq War and the USA PATRIOT Act.

* USA PATRIOT Act

However, he broke with his party on prominent issues, joining Democrats in filibusters of the USA PATRIOT Act and the Bush Administration's 2003 energy bill.

He also became well known as one of the five Republican Senators who joined Democrats in a filibuster of the USA PATRIOT Act renewal conference report.

The USA PATRIOT Act of 2001 was passed soon after the attacks, giving law enforcement agencies sweeping search and surveillance powers over US citizens.

It was sometimes called Patriot II, after the USA PATRIOT Act, which was enacted in 2001.

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* April 2005: EPIC filed a complaint asking a federal court to force the FBI to disclose information about its use of expanded investigative authority granted by sunsetting provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act.

In the USA, this led to the adoption of the Delaney clause, an amendment to the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act of 1938, stating that no carcinogenic substances may be used as food additives.

USA economic engagement under the Haitian Hemispheric Opportunity through Partnership Encouragement ( HOPE ) Act, from December 2006, increased apparel exports and investment by providing tariff-free access to the USA.

* The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act ( FERPA ) ( g ; 34 CFR Part 99 ) is a USA Federal law that protects the privacy of student education records.

* USA Patriot Act

Since there was no federal regulation in the USA concerning safety and effectiveness of drugs until the 1906 Food and Drugs Act and various medicine salesmen or manufacturers seldom had enough skills in analytical chemistry to analyze the contents of snake oil, it became the archetype of hoax.

It was then introduced into the Senate as the USA Act ( S. 1510 ) where a number of amendments were proposed by Senator Russ Feingold,

* The Civil Rights Commission is established in the USA under the Civil Rights Act of 1957.

Andersson's next project was Mamma Mia !, a musical built around 24 of ABBA's songs, which has become a worldwide box-office blockbuster with versions in several languages currently being played in many countries, including the UK ( West End premiere in April 1999 ), Canada ( Toronto premiere in 2000 ), the USA ( Broadway premiere in 2001 ), and Sweden ( Swedish language premiere in 2005 ).

* 2001: I Love Lucy's 50th Anniversary Special ( TV ) ( performer: " California, Here I Come ", " Babalu ( Babalú )") ... aka " The I Love Lucy 50th Anniversary Special " – USA ( DVD title )

What's wrong with food irradiation, revised Feb. 2001, Organic Consumers Association, USA

In October 2001 a lawsuit was filed against Consumer Empowerment by members of the music and motion picture industry in the USA.

Steve Jones, writing in USA Today, gave the re-mastered edition of " Forever Changes " four stars out of four in a 2001 review.

* 84th 2001 Indianapolis, Indiana, USA

| eingetragener Verein |-MSD ) was founded in 2001 based on the Founding Declaration of the Mars Society of the USA from 1998 and has about 230 members.

Recent television espionage programmes are La Femme Nikita ( 1997 – 2001 ), Alias ( 2001 – 2006 ), 24 ( 2001-2010 ), NBC's Chuck ( 2007-present ), and Spooks in the UK ( release as MI-5 in the USA and Canada ) 2002-2011.

* September 2002: First anniversary of the September 11, 2001 attacks are held throughout the world, particularly the USA.

This strategy was used by Al Qaeda in its attacks on the USA in September 2001.

The network also produced some special programs, including the Iron Chef USA program during Christmas 2001.

In 2001, YES YOKO ONO, a forty-year retrospective of Ono's work, received the prestigious International Association of Art Critics USA Award for Best Museum Show Originating in New York City, considered one of the highest accolades in the museum profession.

* Provo, Utah, USA, since 2001

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* Adams, Scott, God's Debris: A Thought Experiment, Andrews McMeel Publishing, ( USA ), 2001

The Tombstone Western Film Festival and Symposium founded in 2001 is held in July in Tombstone, Arizona, a historic western mining town ( and later ghost town ) in the USA celebrated in western films as the site of the legendary Gunfight at the O. K.

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