House Roll Call: Terror Surveillance

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The 218-207 roll call by which the House rejected a bill giving President Bush expanded authority to eavesdrop on suspected foreign terrorists. On this vote, a two-thirds majority was required for passage under a rule limiting debate.

A ''yes'' vote is a vote to reject the bill.

Voting ''yes'' were 215 Democrats and 3 Republicans.

Voting ''no'' were 14 Democrats and 193 Republicans.

''X'' denotes those not voting.



Democrats —
Welch, N.
Woolsey, N.
Michaud, N.
Holt, N;
Blumenauer, N;
Inslee, N;
Filner, N;
Stark, N
Capuano, N;
Olver, N
McGovern, N;
McDermott, N
Kucinich, N;
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070804/ap_on_re_us/house_rollcall_terrorism_surveillance_4
missing one dem I can't seem to find

[Richardo]

1. Inslee? Mr Impeachment?

What the hell?

[DaveinMD]

2. A lot of those Dems

are some of the most progressive Dems in Congress. There must be some other issue at work.

[SeattleVet]

3. Jim McDermott???? That right there tells me that there has *got* to be

a lot more to the story than what has gotten out so far.

[ConsAreLiars]

6. Quite right.

McDermott, Inslee, and Kucinich are definitely not voting to grant more fascist power to the Cabal. My guess is that they wanted to keep holding the pro-totalitarian Cons up to the spotlight, rather than just dumping the the debate.

[oldgrowth]

4. What's up with Blumenauer??

[countmyvote4real]

5. Maybe they want to keep the debate going.

There are some progressive Dems here that must have some problems with the compromise. I'm only speculating.

[StClone]

7. Bush 100: Dems 3

Pig-headed authoritarians can push our little runt Dems around like 45 pound weaklings. What a joke Bush Villains keep sucking power up and Dems can only squeal at higher, fainter levels in our defense. These are the people that we elected to fight for us!? A sorry bunch of wieners.

[OmmmSweetOmmm]

8. The Progressive Democrats voted No because they were against amending FISA, and probably

against FISA in the first place. Jonathan Turley said on Countdown last night that FISA is actually unconstitutional in the first place.

Remember, Dennis Kucinich voted No for the emergency funding of the Iraq war? Same reason.

[derby378]

9. So, does this actually kill the Senate vote last night?

Interesting...

[Junkdrawer]

10. YOU GOT IT EXACTLY BACKWARDS...

A "yes" vote was a vote in favor of the bill.

The bill was the limited version of the FISA expansion and why THIS bill was introduced requiring a 2/3 vote is still a mystery.