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The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on the USA Freedom Act after letting three provisions of the Patriot Act expire over the weekend. 

Of the three provisions on the chopping block, the one at the center of the debate concerned NSA's bulk collection program. 

MPR News' Tom Crann discussed the state of the USA Freedom Act, the political backdrop that influences it and what implications the law will have at home and abroad.

Of the three provisions on the chopping block, the one at the center of the debate concerned NSA's bulk collection program.

The Senate is expected to vote Tuesday on the USA Freedom Act after letting three provisions of the Patriot Act expire over the weekend. Of the three provisions on the chopping block, the one at the center of the debate concerned NSA's bulk collection program. We discussed the state of the USA Freedom Act, the political backdrop that influences it and what implications the law will have at home and abroad. GUESTS: Karen Greenberg of the Center on National Security at Fordham Law School and Mike DeBonis of the Washington Post.

Senate takes on House-passed USA Freedom Act

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