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Rounds wants work before play

Washington, DC (KELO-AM) Work before play is how South Dakota Republican Mike Rounds wants the U.S. Senate to handle all the important legislation bunching up before the long Memorial Day weekend.

He and some other Senators are insisting that the full Senate stay in Washington until the Patriot Act is extended and fast track trade authority and road funding have been approved, before everyone heads home for the holiday.

Rounds says he has great respect for Senator Rand Paul (R-KY) and others who have privacy concerns about the Patriot Act, but he doesn't want to wake up to a terrorist attack that could have been prevented but the government was no longer allowed to collect the appropriate data.