Posted on 06/22/2016 6:05:47 PM PDT by Whenifhow
The Senate on Wednesday rejected a Republican-led effort to allow the FBI to access a person’s Internet browsing history, email account data and other electronic communications without a court order in terrorism and spy cases.
The measure from Senate Armed Services Committee Chairman John McCain (R-Ariz.) and Senate Intelligence Committee Chairman Richard Burr (R-N.C.) would have also extended the government’s authority to conduct surveillance over potential “lone wolf” attackers.
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A majority of the Senate backed the proposal in a 58 to 38 vote, but it needed 60 votes to advance.
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The measure inspired a fierce backlash from privacy advocates, and may have faced resistance in the House, where lawmakers passed a bill earlier this year to limit the government’s authority to access email.
Still, 11 Democrats and one independent senator who affiliates with them voted for the McCain and Burr proposal, while only six Republicans peeled away from their party to oppose the measure.
Earlier this year, FBI Director James Comey said that giving the government the ability to collect information about electronic communications — such as a person’s email account, how much time a person spends on various websites, and their Internet protocol address — without obtaining a court order was the bureau’s top priority.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=114&session=2&vote=00108#position
McConnell will try again.
This bill has already passed in the house
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2016/roll235.xml
This legislation and the gun legislation are both about due process- attempting to destroy the constitution -again!
| Senate bill seeks to allow FBI web searches without court order | ||
| Alabama: | Sessions (R-AL), Yea | Shelby (R-AL), Yea |
| Alaska: | Murkowski (R-AK), Nay | Sullivan (R-AK), Yea |
| Arizona: | Flake (R-AZ), Yea | McCain (R-AZ), Yea |
| Arkansas: | Boozman (R-AR), Yea | Cotton (R-AR), Yea |
| California: | Boxer (D-CA), Nay | Feinstein (D-CA), Not Voting |
| Colorado: | Bennet (D-CO), Nay | Gardner (R-CO), Nay |
| Connecticut: | Blumenthal (D-CT), Nay | Murphy (D-CT), Nay |
| Delaware: | Carper (D-DE), Nay | Coons (D-DE), Nay |
| Florida: | Nelson (D-FL), Yea | Rubio (R-FL), Yea |
| Georgia: | Isakson (R-GA), Yea | Perdue (R-GA), Yea |
| Hawaii: | Hirono (D-HI), Nay | Schatz (D-HI), Nay |
| Idaho: | Crapo (R-ID), Not Voting | Risch (R-ID), Yea |
| Illinois: | Durbin (D-IL), Nay | Kirk (R-IL), Yea |
| Indiana: | Coats (R-IN), Yea | Donnelly (D-IN), Not Voting |
| Iowa: | Ernst (R-IA), Yea | Grassley (R-IA), Yea |
| Kansas: | Moran (R-KS), Yea | Roberts (R-KS), Yea |
| Kentucky: | McConnell (R-KY), Nay | Paul (R-KY), Nay |
| Louisiana: | Cassidy (R-LA), Yea | Vitter (R-LA), Yea |
| Maine: | Collins (R-ME), Yea | King (I-ME), Yea |
| Maryland: | Cardin (D-MD), Nay | Mikulski (D-MD), Yea |
| Massachusetts: | Markey (D-MA), Nay | Warren (D-MA), Nay |
| Michigan: | Peters (D-MI), Nay | Stabenow (D-MI), Nay |
| Minnesota: | Franken (D-MN), Nay | Klobuchar (D-MN), Yea |
| Mississippi: | Cochran (R-MS), Yea | Wicker (R-MS), Yea |
| Missouri: | Blunt (R-MO), Yea | McCaskill (D-MO), Yea |
| Montana: | Daines (R-MT), Nay | Tester (D-MT), Nay |
| Nebraska: | Fischer (R-NE), Yea | Sasse (R-NE), Yea |
| Nevada: | Heller (R-NV), Nay | Reid (D-NV), Yea |
| New Hampshire: | Ayotte (R-NH), Yea | Shaheen (D-NH), Nay |
| New Jersey: | Booker (D-NJ), Nay | Menendez (D-NJ), Not Voting |
| New Mexico: | Heinrich (D-NM), Nay | Udall (D-NM), Nay |
| New York: | Gillibrand (D-NY), Nay | Schumer (D-NY), Nay |
| North Carolina: | Burr (R-NC), Yea | Tillis (R-NC), Yea |
| North Dakota: | Heitkamp (D-ND), Yea | Hoeven (R-ND), Yea |
| Ohio: | Brown (D-OH), Nay | Portman (R-OH), Yea |
| Oklahoma: | Inhofe (R-OK), Yea | Lankford (R-OK), Yea |
| Oregon: | Merkley (D-OR), Nay | Wyden (D-OR), Nay |
| Pennsylvania: | Casey (D-PA), Yea | Toomey (R-PA), Yea |
| Rhode Island: | Reed (D-RI), Yea | Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea |
| South Carolina: | Graham (R-SC), Yea | Scott (R-SC), Yea |
| South Dakota: | Rounds (R-SD), Yea | Thune (R-SD), Yea |
| Tennessee: | Alexander (R-TN), Yea | Corker (R-TN), Yea |
| Texas: | Cornyn (R-TX), Yea | Cruz (R-TX), Yea |
| Utah: | Hatch (R-UT), Yea | Lee (R-UT), Nay |
| Vermont: | Leahy (D-VT), Nay | Sanders (I-VT), Nay |
| Virginia: | Kaine (D-VA), Nay | Warner (D-VA), Yea |
| Washington: | Cantwell (D-WA), Nay | Murray (D-WA), Nay |
| West Virginia: | Capito (R-WV), Yea | Manchin (D-WV), Yea |
| Wisconsin: | Baldwin (D-WI), Nay | Johnson (R-WI), Yea |
| Wyoming: | Barrasso (R-WY), Yea | Enzi (R-WY), Yea |
Thanks for the link.
Exactly. They let terrorists run wild. They let foreigners run over our border illegally. Their response? Spy on Americans more. Take away the constitutional rights of law abiding citizens. They absolutely have earned our contempt.
A clever lawyer could argue that it’s just corporate data - Verizon/AT&T/Whatever is permitted to give “their” data to the government. That is the wrong perspective. The right perspective is that the government has no business snooping into our lives without a warrant based on probable cause, even if they can make a case that their actions do not technically violate the Fourth Amendment. Under the Ninth and Tenth Amendments, federal government overreach of this nature is still unconstitutional.
Cruz and Rubio vote Yea.
Cruz and Rubio vote Yea.
No big shock.
I suppose so. I only printed the vote mentioned by the link. Title of the bill did not reflect what was in it. That is not unusual, though.
I simply composed a HTML version of the table to be posted to the web. I have done that many times.
First rule of the police state: never let a crisis go to waste!
Thanks for posting the chart!
They need a bill telling the FBI to do its jobs. Its as simple as that.
My pleasure. With the right tools it is pretty easy to compose. Have used Gnumeric for years to convert data to HTML fragments. It is a powerful open source spreadsheet. It supports RegEx find replace (undocumented) and does wonderful job on data to HTML (even in color from spreadsheet). It’s best to place the color coding after data sorting.
Remember when Ted Cruz used to pretend to care about the Constitution?
Yes.
It is a stealth bill, title totally misrepresents it’s intent. It’s a Lie.
WTH?
After ALL the crap I have heard about the FBI in the last few years, I believe the agency is little more than this magic negro’s goon squad.
lying bunch of crap they often are.
I am not sure about that either. It appears to be a mixed content bill. Title is totally misleading. I’m assuming the bill number is correct as was posted. There may be something in it that we do not see.
Here is a pdf of the bill (note, it says there are 2 versions of the bill)
https://www.congress.gov/crec/2016/06/20/CREC-2016-06-20-pt1-PgS4335-2.pdf
Don’t need the FBI. Ask HAWAII, or someagents in HAWAII. They’ve sure accessed mine. And I’m not accused of spying. Maybe that’s the difference. Shouldn’t be. Agents in or OF HAWAII. Maybe HSPLS trumps laws meant to check FBI.
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