How the Senate Fell Apart and Failed to Deal With the Patriot Act

With no solution in sight to the Patriot Act quagmire that kept lawmakers voting until past 1 a.m. Saturday, senators have left town for a week. They will return next Sunday—just hours before the deadline to act on the future of the federal government’s sweeping domestic-spying powers.

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