Congress drafts new "anti-terror" bill -- with expiration date

[Declan McCullagh]

On Tue, Oct 02, 2001 at 01:09:50PM -0700, Bill Stewart wrote:
> It's nice that the proposal has a sunset clause in it,
> to limit the amount of time that we're subject to the
> various good or bad half-baked suggestions and the various
> agencies' requests for powers they've always wanted.
> Expect that the worst parts will get extended indefinitely over the years :-)

If I recall properly -- read the text of the bill to check me here --
the bill explicitly invites the Prez to submit his request for an
extension in 2 yrs.

-Declan