| The bill went nowhere in the Senate, and Congress was ultimately unable to pass the reauthorization anyway. |
| At the opposite end of the spectrum, Florida senator Marco Rubio is an ardent proponent of the NSA programs and is pushing for a full Patriot Act reauthorization. |
| A regularized review and reauthorization clause may be helpful to allow updating and addition of future material to the Policy. |
| A major driver for the conference was the forthcoming 2007 reauthorization of the Farm Bill in the US, which is reauthorized every five years. |
| Last week, Texas senator John Cornyn, the second-ranking Republican in the Senate, said he supported a short-term, clean reauthorization of the Patriot Act to give lawmakers more time to negotiate. |
| Yet, with nearly all aspects of its practical applications hidden under extensive secrecy – especially the post-2006 additiof of NSA bulk surveillance – reauthorization of the Patriot Act provisions had become routine. |
