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Saturday, August 04, 2007

House Approves FISA Amendment

Marty Lederman

227-183, with 41 Democrats voting in favor.

For more on what the bill appears to do, see here.

Comments:

The margins are unsurprising in both the Senate and the House and Senate, including all the House Blue Dogs and Dem senators from Red States.
 

The margin in the Senate was engineered. Both parties planned that this would pass. The Senate vote landed dead nuts on the number needed to pass, and that with 11 Senators (plus Johnson) absent.

I do agree, "unsurprising." There are few civil libertarians in the federal government.
 

One thought of one ... Ron Paul ... didn't vote.

BTW, note the name of the bill ... "Protect America Act." You got to laugh at that, or you might do something less nice.
 

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