As introduced, the bill had fourteen separate sections of legislative fixes, ranging from corrections of clear typographical errors to provisions that were quite substantive and potentially contentious.

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Sununu said the government had provided no "substantive" material to show how proposed changes to some of the provisions could in any way undermine or weaken the government's ability to fight terrorism.

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