US Congress House Bill 6501 (Prior Session Legislation)

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Spectrum: Partisan Bill (Democrat 3-0)
Status: Introduced on December 8 2010 - 25% progression, died in committee
Action: 2010-12-08 - Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent Select)
Pending: House Intelligence Committee
Text: Latest bill text (Introduced) [PDF]

Establishes the National Commission on Presidential War Powers and Civil Liberties to investigate, and report to the President and Congress on, the broad range of executive branch national security policies undertaken since the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001, including: (1) detention by the Armed Forces and the intelligence community; (2) the use by such entities of enhanced interrogation techniques or techniques not authorized by the Uniform Code of Military Justice; (3) "ghosting" or other policies intended to conceal an individual's capture or detention; (4) extraordinary rendition; (5) domestic warrantless electronic surveillance; (6) targeted killings away from conventional battlefields; and (7) the use of state secrets or other litigation tactics or privileges to avoid judicial review of national security actions.

To establish a national commission on presidential war powers and civil liberties.

Rep. John Conyers [D-MI]

Rep. Sheila Jackson-Lee [D-TX]

Rep. Henry Johnson [D-GA]

Date	Chamber	Action
2010-12-08		Referred to House Intelligence (Permanent Select)
2010-12-08		Referred to House Foreign Affairs
2010-12-08		Referred to House Judiciary
2010-12-08		Referred to House Armed Services
2010-12-08		Referred to the Committee on Armed Services, and in addition to the Committees on the Judiciary, Foreign Affairs, and Intelligence (Permanent Select), for a period to be subsequently determined by the Speaker, in each case for consideration of such provisions as fall within the jurisdiction of the committee concerned.

HB104 (Related) 2009-06-12 - Referred to the Subcommittee on the Constitution, Civil Rights, and Civil Liberties.

Type	Source
Summary	https://www.congress.gov/bill/111th-congress/house-bill/6501/all-info
Text	https://www.congress.gov/111/bills/hr6501/BILLS-111hr6501ih.pdf