{"id":14161,"date":"2014-11-14T08:44:48","date_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:44:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14161"},"modified":"2014-11-14T08:46:25","modified_gmt":"2014-11-14T13:46:25","slug":"wapo-senate-poised-to-vote-on-usa-freedom-act-as-early-as-next-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14161","title":{"rendered":"WaPo: Senate poised to vote on USA Freedom Act as early as next week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/blogs\/the-switch\/wp\/2014\/11\/12\/senate-poised-to-vote-on-usa-freedom-act-as-early-as-next-week\/\">Senate poised to vote on USA Freedom Act as early as next week<\/a> by Ellen Nakashima:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The Senate is poised to vote as early as next week on the USA Freedom Act, legislation that would end the National Security Agency&#8217;s bulk collection of records about Americans&#8217; phone calls.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>One of Congress&#8217;s jobs is determine public policy. What happens when Congress can&#8217;t do anything and the courts have to try to determine public policy on their own, something the conservatives say they aren&#8217;t supposed to do? Then the executive branch gets a pass?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>WaPo: Senate poised to vote on USA Freedom Act as early as next week by Ellen Nakashima: The Senate is poised to vote as early as next week on the USA Freedom Act, legislation that would end the National Security &hellip; <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/?p=14161\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14161","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fisa"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=14161"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14164,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14161\/revisions\/14164"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=14161"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=14161"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/fourthamendment.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=14161"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}