The 19 Senators Who Voted To Censor The Internet (John Cornyn R-TX COICA a vote for censorship!)

techdirt.com ^ | November 18, 2010 | Mike Masnick

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This is hardly a surprise but, this morning (as previously announced), the lame duck Senate Judiciary Committee unanimously voted to move forward with censoring the internet via the COICA bill -- despite a bunch of law professors explaining to them how this law is a clear violation of the First Amendment. What's really amazing is that many of the same Senators have been speaking out against internet censorship in other countries, yet they happily vote to approve it here because it's seen as a way to make many of their largest campaign contributors happy. There's very little chance that the bill will actually get passed by the end of the term but, in the meantime, we figured it might be useful to highlight the 19 Senators who voted to censor the internet this morning: Patrick J. Leahy -- Vermont Herb Kohl -- Wisconsin Jeff Sessions -- Alabama Dianne Feinstein -- California Orrin G. Hatch -- Utah Russ Feingold -- Wisconsin Chuck Grassley -- Iowa Arlen Specter -- Pennsylvania Jon Kyl -- Arizona Chuck Schumer -- New York Lindsey Graham -- South Carolina Dick Durbin -- Illinois John Cornyn -- Texas Benjamin L. Cardin -- Maryland Tom Coburn -- Oklahoma Sheldon Whitehouse -- Rhode Island Amy Klobuchar -- Minnesota Al Franken -- Minnesota Chris Coons -- Delaware

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I don’t know who is worse; Cornyn or Hutchison.

I know, both are bad, but Hutchison is worse. She was recently on the fence with the DREAM Act, which should have been a definite NO!

We in Texas need to get rid of both of these RINOs and put in a Tea Party candidate! Cornyn can't hold himself back from supporting 'The Establishment' republicans, like Crist and Specter and other Ignoble B-tards like Murkowski.

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You are right. Hutchison is worse.