Senate Votes for Expansion of Spy Powers (68-29 vote)

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/13/us/13fisa.html?hp ^ | 02-13-08 | Eric Lichtblau

[MNJohnnie]

After more than a year of wrangling, the Senate handed the White House a major victory on Tuesday by voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies that cooperated in President Bush’s program of eavesdropping without warrants.

One by one, the Senate rejected amendments that would have imposed greater civil liberties checks on the government’s surveillance powers. Finally, the Senate voted 68 to 29 to approve legislation that the White House had been pushing for months. Mr. Bush hailed the vote and urged the House to move quickly in following the Senate’s lead.

[MNJohnnie]

Oh my, this is REALLY not going to make the Kooky base of the Democrat Party happy.

[squidly]

Not surprising that Clinton and Obama abstained.

[Army Air Corps]

Will Captain HopeChange be alerted with the HopeChange signal? I am sure the moonbats hope so...

[CougarGA7]

I want spy powers!

[Wally_Kalbacken]

I don’t have to look to know that Sen. Dodd was among the 29. He was reading some comments into the record last night - and it was immediately apparent from the difficulty he had reading the prepared remarks that he had no understanding of the Internet or the concept of packet switching or really anything relevant to the idea of modern communications surveillance. What a fool. He was essentially arguing for the requirement that a warrant be requested each time a potentially dangerous communication was detected. By whihc time of course the communication would be complete. Thank God this $hit is on the record.

[MNJohnnie]

You mean like James Bond’s power with women?

[CougarGA7]

I’m not setting the bar that high. I’ll settle for the x-ray glasses.

[weegee]

There is LESS than a year in President Bush’s reign. This is NO LONGER President Bush’s spy program.

If Obama and Mrs. Clinton are opposed to it and won’t use it, they should have voted NO. They support it and will use it far more than Bush will have a chance to.

[Cindy]

“...voting to broaden the government’s spy powers and to give legal protection to phone companies...”

Good.

[Rob112586]

Just remember, Bush’s powers and expansion of office carries over to the Dems. Can you imagine Louie Freeh as head of Department of Motherland Security?

[MNJohnnie]

Just remember the terrorists aren’t going to stop trying to kill you just because Bush left office.

[traviskicks]

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[CougarGA7]

If anything they will probably feel more emboldened. Especially, if Hillbama gets in office and we abandon the Iraqis.

[traviskicks]

Just remember the terrorists aren’t going to stop trying to kill you just because Bush left office.

And government isn't going to stop stomping on us either. :)

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

The moonbats are busy campaigning for their future life$.

[BigEdLB]

Alphabetical by Senator Name
Akaka (D-HI), Nay
Alexander (R-TN), Yea
Allard (R-CO), Yea
Barrasso (R-WY), Yea
Baucus (D-MT), Yea
Bayh (D-IN), Yea
Bennett (R-UT), Yea
Biden (D-DE), Nay
Bingaman (D-NM), Nay
Bond (R-MO), Yea
Boxer (D-CA), Nay
Brown (D-OH), Nay
Brownback (R-KS), Yea
Bunning (R-KY), Yea
Burr (R-NC), Yea
Byrd (D-WV), Nay
Cantwell (D-WA), Nay
Cardin (D-MD), Nay
Carper (D-DE), Yea
Casey (D-PA), Yea
Chambliss (R-GA), Yea
Clinton (D-NY), Not Voting
Coburn (R-OK), Yea
Cochran (R-MS), Yea
Coleman (R-MN), Yea
Collins (R-ME), Yea
Conrad (D-ND), Yea
Corker (R-TN), Yea
Cornyn (R-TX), Yea
Craig (R-ID), Yea
Crapo (R-ID), Yea
DeMint (R-SC), Yea
Dodd (D-CT), Nay
Dole (R-NC), Yea
Domenici (R-NM), Yea
Dorgan (D-ND), Nay
Durbin (D-IL), Nay
Ensign (R-NV), Yea
Enzi (R-WY), Yea
Feingold (D-WI), Nay
Feinstein (D-CA), Nay
Graham (R-SC), Not Voting
Grassley (R-IA), Yea
Gregg (R-NH), Yea
Hagel (R-NE), Yea
Harkin (D-IA), Nay
Hatch (R-UT), Yea
Hutchison (R-TX), Yea
Inhofe (R-OK), Yea
Inouye (D-HI), Yea
Isakson (R-GA), Yea
Johnson (D-SD), Yea
Kennedy (D-MA), Nay
Kerry (D-MA), Nay
Klobuchar (D-MN), Nay
Kohl (D-WI), Yea
Kyl (R-AZ), Yea
Landrieu (D-LA), Yea
Lautenberg (D-NJ), Nay
Leahy (D-VT), Nay
Levin (D-MI), Nay
Lieberman (ID-CT), Yea
Lincoln (D-AR), Yea
Lugar (R-IN), Yea
Martinez (R-FL), Yea
McCain (R-AZ), Yea
McCaskill (D-MO), Yea
McConnell (R-KY), Yea
Menendez (D-NJ), Nay
Mikulski (D-MD), Yea
Murkowski (R-AK), Yea
Murray (D-WA), Nay
Nelson (D-FL), Yea
Nelson (D-NE), Yea
Obama (D-IL), Not Voting
Pryor (D-AR), Yea
Reed (D-RI), Nay
Reid (D-NV), Nay
Roberts (R-KS), Yea
Rockefeller (D-WV), Yea
Salazar (D-CO), Yea
Sanders (I-VT), Nay
Schumer (D-NY), Nay
Sessions (R-AL), Yea
Shelby (R-AL), Yea
Smith (R-OR), Yea
Snowe (R-ME), Yea
Specter (R-PA), Yea
Stabenow (D-MI), Nay
Stevens (R-AK), Yea
Sununu (R-NH), Yea
Tester (D-MT), Nay
Thune (R-SD), Yea
Vitter (R-LA), Yea
Voinovich (R-OH), Yea
Warner (R-VA), Yea
Webb (D-VA), Yea
Whitehouse (D-RI), Yea
Wicker (R-MS), Yea
Wyden (D-OR), Nay

[kingu]

Clinton’s probably drooling about how that power could be abused...

[wastedyears]

Where does McCain stand on this?

[MNJohnnie]

Don't see any Govt stomping on anyone right now. Where are all these Govt political prison and repressed dissidents you Libertines keep telling us are just around the corner because our bad old Govt is coming to "get us"?

You all have been screaming this same line since the drug war started. Yet 40 years later, still no dissidents being rounded up, no political prisons.

I keep hearing about how dastardly it is for the Govt to be listening in on Internet and phone communications between people in the USA and people over seas. People with connections to groups that have ties to those who murdered 3000 American civilians.

Funny how the same people in hysterics about this did not mind when they were monitoring "militas" and "right wing hate groups".

Ah but that right, it only dangerous to Libertines when the President is a Republican.

[MNJohnnie]

McCain voted for it.