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Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass., confers with Sen. Joseph Biden, D-Del., right, during a Senate Judiciary Committee on the Patriot Act, which greatly expanded the government's surveillance and detention powers, and was overwhelmingly passed by Congress after the Sept. 11 attacks, on Capitol Hill Tuesday, Oct. 21,2003. Although representatives of the Justice Department testified, both senators expressed dissatisfaction that Attorney General John Ashcroft did not attend. (AP Photo/Gerald Herbert)