After soundly rejecting the Dodd/Feingold amendment, the Senate also took up a bill by Sen. Arlen Specter (R-PA) (co-sponsored by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-RI)) which would have substituted the government as the defendant in the lawsuits against the telecoms over the administration’s warrantless wiretapping program.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=178618