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Who authored the Patriot Act?

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Congress passed the USA PATRIOT Act on October 26, 2001, barely six weeks after the terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and the Pentagon. The bill was passed with little debate at the height of the anthrax contamination scare when many lawmakers did not have access to their offices. Sen. Russell Feingold (D-WI), the lone dissenter in the Senate, remarked that few had even read summaries, let alone the fine print.

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Based on the terrorist attack on the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001, a law was created to fight terrorism in the US. By late October, 2001, the Patriot Act was made law.

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