House votes to continue NSA surveillance program (217-205)

10News ^ | 24 July 2013

[11th_VA]

WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives has voted to continue the collection of hundreds of millions of Americans' phone records in the fight against terrorism.

The chamber rejected a measure to end the program's authority. The vote was 217-205 on Wednesday.

Republican Rep. Justin Amash had challenged the program as an indiscriminate collection of phone records. His measure, if approved by the full House and Senate and signed by the president, would have ended the program's statutory authority.

The White House, national security experts in Congress and the Republican establishment had lobbied hard against Amash's effort.

Libertarian-leaning conservatives and some liberal Democrats had supported Amash's effort.

The vote was unlikely to settle the debate over privacy rights and government efforts to thwart terrorism

[novemberslady]

I believe so

[novemberslady]

Smith (NJ)Aye

[Orangedog]

The terrorists have won.

They "won" a long time ago. Patriot Act, creation of homeland security, ignoring FISA because it was an old law, I could go on. Some are just noticing now because the current clown in the white house has a D next to his name. But don't worry, someone with an R next to his name will get back in there soon enough and we can all go back to barking "why do you hate america?!" at anyone denouncing these policies.

[novemberslady]

His measure, if approved by the full House and Senate and signed by the president, would have ended the program's statutory authority.

[rephope]

Paul Ryan(WI) No

[Art in Idaho]

Remember in November, 2014!

[Steve Van Doorn]

Why is Bachmann’s name on both For and against on that list?

[StolarStorm]

Thanks! I take that back about Poe. He’s got my vote (if votes really matter anymore).

[lgjhn23]

“...Any politician that voted for this is either a traitor, or a crook afraid of what the NSA knows. Every single one of them need to be thrown out of Office....”

NOW, we can tell who NSA/Odongo has the dirt on. IF they voted for this, they’re dirty and need to be voted out of office. Until that happens, we have a one-party (communist) system in this country. Odongo rules supreme. They know it, we know it. It’s now only the “unwashed masses” that still believe they live in a free country. Maybe someday they’ll wake up and realize what’s really going on.

[novemberslady]

You're welcome.
I get confused too :)

[Art in Idaho]

Ryan No and 134 Republican NOES. What's up with that?

[mrsmith]

Here’s the amendment that DID PASS:

“SEC. XX. None of funds made available by this Act may be used by the National Security Agency to—
(1) conduct an acquisition pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 for the purpose of targeting a United States person; or
(2) acquire, monitor, or store the contents (as such term is defined in section 2510(8) of title 18, United States Code) of any electronic communication of a United States person from a provider of electronic communication services to the public pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978.”
It passed with just 12 Dems voting against it.

Here’s Amash’s for comparison:
“Sec. XX. None of the funds made available by this Act may be used to execute a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court order pursuant to section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) that does not include the following sentence: `This Order limits the collection of any tangible things (including telephone numbers dialed, telephone numbers of incoming calls, and the duration of calls) that may be authorized to be collected pursuant to this Order to those tangible things that pertain to a person who is the subject of an investigation described in section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861).’.”

Not an expert but it sounds like what passed is already in the law as it does not affect ‘metadata’. Content, I believe, is not collectable already.

[RedMDer]

Is Boehner using the Hastert Doctrine?

[DoughtyOne]

One more example of just how productive it is to have the majority in the House.

[Road Warrior ‘04]

Consider my (FL) congresscritter, Rooney, primaried! My old congresscritter, (re-districting) Dennis Ross, voted to stop it.

[RKBA Democrat]

“Why is Bachmann’s name on both For and against on that list?

Because she was for it before she was against it?

[RKBA Democrat]

“GOPe leaders Boehner and Cantor voted NO.”

As did their soul mates in the other wing of the uniparty. Here’s how the “leaders” voted:

Boehner, Cantor, Hoyer, King, Pelosi, Reed, Ryan. All voted NO.

When it comes to autocracy, CONgress speaks with one clear voice.

[TurboZamboni]

disappointed again.

my critter(Bachmann) voted ‘no’.

[Sopater]

They just said they don’t care about the 4th amendment.

Actually, I think that they said that they care very much about the 4th amendment, and it troubles them deeply.

It is only those who which to trample our God-given natural rights who say that the U.S. Constitution is an outdated document.

[markomalley]

FINAL VOTE RESULTS FOR ROLL CALL 412(Republicans in roman; Democrats in italic; Independents underlined)
      H R 2397      RECORDED VOTE      24-Jul-2013      6:51 PM
      AUTHOR(S):  Amash of Michigan Amendment No. 100
      QUESTION:  On Agreeing to the Amendment

	Ayes	Noes	PRES	NV
Republican	94	134		6
Democratic	111	83		6
Independent
TOTALS	205	217		12

---- AYES    205 ---

Amash Amodei Bachus Barton Bass Becerra Bentivolio Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Broun (GA) Buchanan Burgess Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carson (IN) Cartwright Cassidy Chabot Chaffetz Chu Cicilline Clarke Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Connolly Conyers Courtney Cramer Crowley Cummings Daines Davis, Danny Davis, Rodney DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSantis DesJarlais Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Eshoo Farenthold Farr Fattah Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Fudge Gabbard Garamendi

Gardner Garrett Gibson Gohmert Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Grayson Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grijalva Hahn Hall Harris Hastings (FL) Holt Honda Huelskamp Huffman Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Jeffries Jenkins Johnson (OH) Jones Jordan Keating Kildee Kingston Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Larson (CT) Lee (CA) Lewis Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lujan Grisham (NM) Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lummis Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Marchant Massie Matsui McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern McHenry McMorris Rodgers Meadows Mica Michaud Miller, Gary Miller, George Moore Moran Mullin Mulvaney Nadler Napolitano Neal Nolan Nugent O'Rourke

Owens Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Pearce Perlmutter Perry Petri Pingree (ME) Pocan Poe (TX) Polis Posey Price (GA) Radel Rahall Rangel Ribble Rice (SC) Richmond Roe (TN) Rohrabacher Ross Rothfus Roybal-Allard Rush Salmon Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanford Sarbanes Scalise Schiff Schrader Schweikert Scott (VA) Sensenbrenner Serrano Shea-Porter Sherman Smith (MO) Smith (NJ) Southerland Speier Stewart Stockman Swalwell (CA) Takano Thompson (MS) Thompson (PA) Tierney Tipton Tonko Tsongas Vela Velázquez Walz Waters Watt Waxman Weber (TX) Welch Williams Wilson (SC) Yarmuth Yoder Yoho Young (AK)

---- NOES    217 ---

Aderholt Alexander Andrews Bachmann Barber Barr Barrow (GA) Benishek Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Boehner Bonner Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bucshon Butterfield Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Carney Carter Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Cook Cooper Costa Cotton Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Delaney Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Duckworth Ellmers Engel Enyart Esty Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garcia Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Grimm Guthrie Gutiérrez Hanabusa

Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holding Hoyer Hudson Hunter Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Joyce Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Kilmer Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Lance Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Latham Latta Levin Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Maloney, Sean Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McIntyre McKeon McKinley McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Messer Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Payne Pelosi

Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Price (NC) Quigley Reed Reichert Renacci Rigell Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Schakowsky Schneider Schwartz Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell (AL) Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Stivers Stutzman Terry Thompson (CA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Wasserman Schultz Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Young (FL) Young (IN)

---- NOT VOTING    12 ---

Barletta Beatty Bustos Campbell

Coble Herrera Beutler Horsford McCarthy (NY)

Negrete McLeod Pallone Rokita Schock