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The Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT) Act, Public Law 107-56, is part of the Congressional response to September 11. It is the merger of two similar bills. S.1510 passed the Senate on October 11, 147 Cong. Rec. S10604, and H. R.2975 passed the House on October 12 after substituting the language of H. R.3108 for its text, 147 Cong. Rec. H6775. Having informally resolving their differences, the House enacted the measure in final form on October 24, 147 Cong. Rec. H7282, and the Senate on October 25, 147 Cong. Rec. S11059. The report of the House Committee on the judiciary, H. Rept. 107-236 on H. R.2975, and the report of the House Committee on Financial Services, H. Rept. 107-250 on H. R. 3004, each explain some of the issues ultimately resolved in the Act. This is a section by section analysis of the Act as enacted. The analysis borrows the explanations of the House Committee of the Judiciary, in a number of those instances where the language of the Committee bill and the language of the Act are identical.