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CNN has it right. Pelosi's House won't pass the updated legislation because their trial lawyer donors want to file class action lawsuits against companies that cooperated with the government. There's your Democrat party: protecting trial lawyers but not citizens. (Photo credit: Yahoo News)President Bush on Thursday urged Congress to vote on an update to the terrorist surveillance bill, which allows the intelligence community to conduct surveillance on foreigners without a warrant.
A temporary update to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act expired more than a week ago.
"The law expired, the threat to America didn't expire," the president told reporters. Bush has been pressing Congress to pass a permanent update, arguing that its delayed passage hurts national security.
The Senate passed a bill, but members of the House have taken issue with a provision in the Senate version that grants retroactive immunity from prosecution for telecommunications companies that assisted the government in its surveillance program.
