HR 1157 · 108th Congress 2003–2005, ended

Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003

Introduced Mar 6, 2003 Originated House Sponsor Bernard Sanders I-VT

Latest action · Jul 8, 2004 Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5348)

Progress

Where this bill reached, and when. A stage with no date was not reached; one that failed a vote and later carried shows the date it carried.

IntroducedMar 6, 2003
Passed HouseNot reached
Passed SenateNot reached
To the PresidentNot reached
Became lawNot reached

Summary

Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003 - Amends the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (the Act) to provide that no application by the Director of the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) to a U.S. court for an order requiring the production of tangible things for an investigation to obtain foreign intelligence information from a U.S. person or to protect against international terrorism may be made for the sole purpose of searching for, or seizing from, a bookseller or library documentary materials that contain personally identifiable information concerning a patron. Provides that nothing in this Act shall be construed to preclude a physical search for documentary materials (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items) under other provisions of law.

Revises congressional reporting requirements under the Act to require the Attorney General, in informing Congress with respect to applications for orders approving requests for the production of tangible things, to: (1) describe the specific purpose of each order application; (2) analyze the effectiveness of each application that was granted or modified in protecting U.S. citizens against terrorism; and (3) make public such information provided in a manner consistent with the national security of the United States.

Cosponsors 152

Members who signed on, in the order they did. Signatures ran from Mar 6, 2003 to Sep 9, 2004; 23 are original cosponsors, there from the day it was introduced.

Seat	Cosponsor		Signed on
D-CA	Barbara Lee	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-MA	Barney Frank	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-OR	Earl Blumenauer	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-NY	Edolphus Towns	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Fortney Pete Stark	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-TN	Harold E. Ford Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-MA	James P. McGovern	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-IL	Jesse L. Jackson, Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-WA	Jim McDermott	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-MI	John Conyers, Jr.	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-MA	John W. Olver	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Lynn C. Woolsey	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-NY	Major R. Owens	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-CO	Mark Udall	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-NY	Maurice D. Hinchey	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Maxine Waters	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-OR	Peter A. DeFazio	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-AZ	Raúl M. Grijalva	Original	Mar 6, 2003
R-TX	Ron Paul	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-CA	Sam Farr	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-TX	Sheila Jackson Lee	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-WI	Tammy Baldwin	Original	Mar 6, 2003
D-IL	William O. Lipinski	Original	Mar 6, 2003
R-ID	C. L. (Butch) Otter		Mar 11, 2003
D-AZ	Ed Pastor		Mar 11, 2003
D-NY	Jerrold Nadler		Mar 11, 2003
D-CA	Lois Capps		Mar 11, 2003
D-NY	Jose E. Serrano		Mar 12, 2003
D-WA	Rick Larsen		Mar 12, 2003
D-CA	Anna G. Eshoo		Mar 13, 2003
D-MN	Collin C. Peterson		Mar 13, 2003
D-FL	Corrine Brown		Mar 13, 2003
R-IL	Donald A. Manzullo		Mar 13, 2003
D-MN	Martin Olav Sabo		Mar 13, 2003
D-HI	Neil Abercrombie		Mar 13, 2003
D-NM	Tom Udall		Mar 13, 2003
D-MN	Betty McCollum		Mar 18, 2003
D-OH	Dennis J. Kucinich		Mar 18, 2003
D-DC	Eleanor Holmes Norton		Mar 18, 2003
D-CA	George Miller		Mar 18, 2003
D-IN	Julia Carson		Mar 18, 2003
D-MA	Michael E. Capuano		Mar 18, 2003
D-WV	Nick J. Rahall II		Mar 18, 2003
D-LA	William J. Jefferson		Mar 18, 2003
D-MI	Carolyn C. Kilpatrick		Mar 19, 2003
D-KS	Dennis Moore		Mar 19, 2003
D-NY	Eliot L. Engel		Mar 19, 2003
D-IL	Janice D. Schakowsky		Mar 19, 2003
D-MA	Bill Delahunt		Mar 20, 2003
D-MI	Dale E. Kildee		Mar 20, 2003
R-MD	Roscoe G. Bartlett		Mar 20, 2003
D-OH	Sherrod Brown		Mar 20, 2003
D-CA	Tom Lantos		Mar 20, 2003
D-IL	Danny K. Davis		Mar 25, 2003
R-AZ	Jeff Flake		Mar 25, 2003
D-VA	Rick Boucher		Mar 25, 2003
D-CT	Rosa L. DeLauro		Mar 25, 2003
D-OH	Stephanie Tubbs Jones		Mar 25, 2003
D-IL	Jerry F. Costello		Mar 26, 2003
D-MA	John F. Tierney		Mar 26, 2003
D-MO	Wm. Lacy Clay		Mar 26, 2003
D-FL	Alcee L. Hastings		Mar 27, 2003
D-NY	Louise McIntosh Slaughter		Mar 31, 2003
D-CA	Michael M. Honda		Apr 1, 2003
D-NJ	Bill Pascrell, Jr.		Apr 2, 2003
D-NY	Michael R. McNulty		Apr 3, 2003
D-CA	Henry A. Waxman		Apr 7, 2003
D-TX	Lloyd Doggett		Apr 7, 2003
D-PA	Joseph M. Hoeffel		Apr 10, 2003
D-NJ	Rush Holt		Apr 10, 2003
D-NC	Bob Etheridge		Apr 29, 2003
D-TX	Eddie Bernice Johnson		Apr 29, 2003
D-CA	Ellen O. Tauscher		Apr 29, 2003
D-OH	Marcy Kaptur		Apr 29, 2003
R-TN	Zach Wamp		Apr 29, 2003
D-VA	James P. Moran		Apr 30, 2003
D-MD	Chris Van Hollen		May 1, 2003
D-NY	Nydia M. Velázquez		May 1, 2003
D-MI	Bart Stupak		May 6, 2003
D-OR	Darlene Hooley		May 6, 2003
D-ME	Thomas H. Allen		May 6, 2003
D-WA	Brian Baird		May 8, 2003
D-CA	Linda T. Sánchez		May 8, 2003
D-CA	Mike Thompson		May 8, 2003
D-OH	Tim Ryan		May 8, 2003
D-CA	Bob Filner		May 14, 2003
D-IL	Bobby L. Rush		May 14, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn B. Maloney		May 14, 2003
D-CO	Diana DeGette		May 14, 2003
D-CA	Hilda L. Solis		May 14, 2003
R-IA	James A. Leach		May 14, 2003
D-IL	Luis V. Gutierrez		May 14, 2003
D-TX	Martin Frost		May 14, 2003
R-IL	Ray LaHood		May 14, 2003
D-TX	Ruben Hinojosa		May 14, 2003
D-WI	Gerald D. Kleczka		May 15, 2003
D-NY	Carolyn McCarthy		May 19, 2003
D-NJ	Donald M. Payne		May 19, 2003
D-NC	Melvin L. Watt		May 19, 2003
D-CA	Robert T. Matsui		May 19, 2003
D-CA	Diane E. Watson		May 20, 2003
D-NC	David E. Price		May 21, 2003
D-WI	Ron Kind		May 21, 2003
D-NY	Timothy H. Bishop		May 21, 2003
R-AK	Don Young		May 22, 2003
D-CA	Zoe Lofgren		Jun 3, 2003
R-KS	Jerry Moran		Jun 4, 2003
R-TN	John J. Duncan, Jr.		Jun 9, 2003
D-MA	Richard E. Neal		Jun 9, 2003
D-NY	Charles B. Rangel		Jun 10, 2003
D-CA	Juanita Millender-McDonald		Jun 10, 2003
R-MI	Vernon J. Ehlers		Jun 11, 2003
D-HI	Ed Case		Jun 16, 2003
D-SC	James E. Clyburn		Jun 16, 2003
R-PA	Curt Weldon		Jun 17, 2003
D-IN	Peter J. Visclosky		Jun 17, 2003
D-ME	Michael H. Michaud		Jun 18, 2003
R-ID	Michael K. Simpson		Jun 19, 2003
R-MD	Wayne T. Gilchrest		Jun 25, 2003
D-MD	Elijah E. Cummings		Jun 26, 2003
D-MN	James L. Oberstar		Jun 26, 2003
D-CA	Susan A. Davis		Jun 26, 2003
D-GA	Denise L. Majette		Jul 8, 2003
D-MA	Edward J. Markey		Jul 8, 2003
D-WA	Jay Inslee		Jul 8, 2003
D-MI	John D. Dingell		Jul 8, 2003
D-CA	Xavier Becerra		Jul 8, 2003
R-FL	Jeff Miller		Jul 9, 2003
D-TX	Nick Lampson		Jul 10, 2003
D-CT	John B. Larson		Sep 3, 2003
D-GA	John Lewis		Sep 3, 2003
D-MA	Martin T. Meehan		Sep 3, 2003
D-FL	Robert Wexler		Sep 3, 2003
D-MO	Karen McCarthy		Sep 9, 2003
D-NY	Nita M. Lowey		Sep 9, 2003
D-RI	Patrick J. Kennedy		Sep 30, 2003
D-OR	David Wu		Oct 7, 2003
D-NC	Frank W. Ballance Jr.		Oct 17, 2003
D-TX	Chris Bell		Oct 28, 2003
D-NY	Gregory W. Meeks		Oct 28, 2003
D-FL	Jim Davis		Oct 28, 2003
D-SC	John M. Spratt, Jr.		Nov 20, 2003
D-CA	Loretta Sanchez		Nov 21, 2003
D-NJ	Steven R. Rothman		Jan 27, 2004
D-MD	Albert Russell Wynn		Jun 1, 2004
D-PA	Chaka Fattah		Jul 8, 2004
D-PA	Robert A. Brady		Jul 8, 2004
D-NJ	Frank Pallone, Jr.		Jul 19, 2004
D-TX	Gene Green		Jul 19, 2004
D-VA	Robert C. "Bobby" Scott		Jul 20, 2004
D-MS	Gene Taylor		Jul 22, 2004
D-NJ	Robert E. Andrews		Sep 9, 2004

Committees 2

Where it was sent and what each committee and subcommittee did with it, in order.

Chamber	Committee	What it did
House	Judiciary Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2003
	Crime and Federal Government Surveillance Subcommittee	Referred May 5, 2003
House	Intelligence (Permanent Select) Committee	Referred Mar 6, 2003

Actions 5

Everything that happened, newest first.

Jul 8, 2004Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR H5348)
May 5, 2003Referred to the Subcommittee on Crime, Terrorism, and Homeland Security.
Mar 12, 2003Sponsor introductory remarks on measure. (CR E441-442)
Mar 6, 2003Introduced in House
Mar 6, 2003Referred to the Committee on the Judiciary, and in addition to the Committee on 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.

In the Congressional Record 1

Days the Record’s own index lists this bill, newest first, with the pages and the members it names. Pages starting H are the House, S the Senate, E Extensions of Remarks.

Where	In the Record	Members	Date
Extensions	Debate and remarks E441	Bernard Sanders I-VT	Mar 12, 2003

Titles 2

Every title it has carried, official and short, at each stage.

Official Title as Introduced: To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act to exempt bookstores and libraries from orders requiring the production of any tangible things for certain foreign intelligence investigations, and for other purposes.
Short Titles as Introduced: Freedom to Read Protection Act of 2003

Subjects

Assigned by the Library of Congress. Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security.

Text 1

Each version as it was printed, newest first.

Mar 6, 2003Introduced in House

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