Posted on 04/12/2024 3:19:56 PM PDT by Morgana
Eighty-six House Republicans on Friday voted against an amendment to require a warrant for surveillance of Americans’ communications.
Rep. Andy Biggs (R-AZ) proposed an amendment to the Reforming Intelligence and Securing America Act (RISAA), a bill that would reauthorize Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA). Section 702 is a law that is meant to target foreign adversaries, but often surveils Americans’ private communications without a warrant.
The amendment tied at 212-212 in the House; a tie in the House means that the measure fails. Although Biggs’s amendment did receive support from a majority of Republicans, 86 House Republicans failed to support the proposal.
A warrant requirement is overwhelmingly backed by Americans. A YouGov poll commissioned by FreedomWorks and Demand Progress found that 76 percent of Americans support a warrant requirement, while only 12 percent oppose.
Only one member of House Republican leadership voted with the majority of the House Republican Conference on warrants requirements: House Majority Whip Tom Emmer (R-MN). Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA), House Majority Leader Steve Scalise (R-LA), and House Republican Conference Chair Elise Stefanik (R-NY) voted against the warrant requirement.
Johnson used to support closing the backdoor search loophole, or the ability to surveil Americans through Section 702, which is meant to target foreigners. However, he changed his mind after seeing a classified briefing after becoming Speaker.
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That’s Nazi and commie sh*t! Hold on to your shootin’ irons and support the Second Amendment. You’re gonna need them guns the next time patriotic Americans try to protest government corruption and a stolen elections. Hold on to your dempanic masks or get a Hammie Balaclava.
Note Stefanik’s position, for anyone considering her to be Trump veep material.
They got some ‘splainin to do….
And then there’s people on FR who don’t believe that Congressional Republicans are part of the problem. I had one twit jump on me today for that. I can’t believe how many naive people there are out there.
That's one of the reasons I changed my GOP registration after 40+ years, to no party. I'll never register as a Republican again. They don't deserve me.
Maybe she's a lesbian. In that case, her political career is dead. Or she had an affair with a male staffer in her office.
SNOT..! But just maybe it's only to be used for the illegal aliens.....maybe. As far as I'm concerned, they don't have any Constitutional rights anyway...
You can find Videos and Cspan speeches with these Republicans absolutely railing against this power. However, as usual, when it counts they pass Obamacare, the debt limit, and warrantless powers.
People need to figure it out. They are big conservatives in front of cameras but when the Vote rolls around, they’re going to back Joe and the Deep State.
Frauds
Really only ONE party exists in WA. That is being made clearer by the day.
Even if Trump somehow ends up back in office, I have no faith that these Repukes will do anything to help the country. In fact, I believe they will collude with the RATS like they usually do. History shows they are weak and willing to share power with the RATS. And if the RATS take back the House, which is always the possibility, they will do exactly what they did the last time Trump was in office. I hate to sound like doom and gloom, but with this vote, it's hard not to be.
bttt
If he’s that bad, I’d assume he was allowed to vote the correct way since they knew they had the numbers for it to fail.
There are only 41 members in the Freedom Causcus. So 177 Republicans are actually members of the uniparty. They just take turns voting “yes” and “no” to fool us.
I live in TN and have no idea who Kustoff is.
Constitution?
What Constitution?
I dun gotta show you no Constitution!!!
Thanks. I’m sick of FReepers that post that crap.
In other news, Trump says Speaker Johnson is doing a very good job .
Openurmind typed several posts - to which are you referring?
Absolutely good for you! I stayed only long enough to get Trump re-elected. If he doesn’t win then parties won’t matter anyhow, none of them. Because there will never again be a true election anyhow. Voting will not matter. I fear we are already there and it doesn’t matter if we vote or not. They will just install who they want anyhow. But this is our one last effort right here, so we got to try and go through the motions in hopes it might actually work.
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