# How did your Congressman vote on the FISA Bill? **URL:** \ **Category:** In My Humble Opinion\ **Created:** [August 8, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862 "2007-08-08T14:41:30Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 8:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/21 "2007-08-08T20:41:04Z")
[QUOTE=Synthetically Organic] All three of my toolbags–I mean congressmen–voted yes. Two pubbies and a dem. [/QUOTE] Yep. Specter I expected, but Casey snookered me. I thought the only thing I had to really watch him with was abortion issues… The Dems really jellied whatever remnants of their collective spine were left with this one… ---
**Author:** ![AndyPolley](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/54ee81/32.png) [@AndyPolley](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/AndyPolley)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 8:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/22 "2007-08-08T20:45:17Z")
Representative Steve Israel (Dem) voted Nay. ---
**Author:** ![amarinth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/3be4f8/32.png) [@amarinth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/amarinth)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 9:37pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/23 "2007-08-08T21:37:38Z")
Congressman (McDermott) voted Nay (no surprise), as did the Senator (Cantwell)who voted. ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [August 8, 2007, 10:00pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/24 "2007-08-08T22:00:04Z")
My rep (D) and one senator (D) voted nay. The other senator (R) voted yea. What’s the top issue on that douchebag’s web site? > [@](#): > > Senator Smith Seeks New Keepers for Two Oregon Lighthouses That’s it! Hit 'em hard! ---
**Author:** ![elfkin477](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/a9a28c/32.png) [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 1:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/25 "2007-08-09T01:16:19Z")
Our reps voted no. If I’m not the only one who didn’t know the particulars of the bill, there’s a [fact sheet](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070806-5.html) here. ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 2:22am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/26 "2007-08-09T02:22:07Z")
[QUOTE=elfkin477] Our reps voted no. If I’m not the only one who didn’t know the particulars of the bill, there’s a [fact sheet](http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/08/20070806-5.html) here. [/QUOTE] The important particulars are that the administration violated the limits of the FISA according to a FISA court judge. Therefore the congress with Democrats help made the violations legal. Thus giving the a;dministration leave to violate the new limits. ---
**Author:** ![GingerOfTheNorth](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/cdc98d/32.png) [@GingerOfTheNorth](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GingerOfTheNorth)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 3:10am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/27 "2007-08-09T03:10:55Z")
Cardin Yea, Mikulski Nay, both Democrat. ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:02am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/28 "2007-08-09T04:02:42Z")
Rep. Joe Knollenberg (R-MI) voted yes. My Senators, Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow (both Democrats) voted no. No surprise there. If Bush sponsored a bill declaring that the sun rises in the east, Levin would vote against it just out of spite. ---
**Author:** ![Little\_Nemo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/little_nemo/32/3120_2.png) [@Little\_Nemo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Little_Nemo)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:13am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/29 "2007-08-09T04:13:54Z")
Three no’s: Hall, Clinton, and Schumer ---
**Author:** ![Khampelf](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/8e7dd6/32.png) [@Khampelf](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Khampelf)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/30 "2007-08-09T04:44:16Z")
Party lines. My Democrat Rep voted nay. One Senator, Kyl voted yea, McCain was off doing something more important, I guess. ---
**Author:** ![straykat23](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/c4cdca/32.png) [@straykat23](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/straykat23)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:53am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/31 "2007-08-09T04:53:27Z")
My congresswoman, Doris Matsui (D, CA) voted Nay. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) also voted Nay. Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) didn’t cast a vote on this one; had she, I guarantee she’d have also voted Nay. ---
**Author:** ![Evil\_Captor](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/f17d59/32.png) [@Evil\_Captor](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Evil_Captor)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 5:19am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/32 "2007-08-09T05:19:42Z")
My Rep. and both Senators voted for it. They are all asshole Republicans, of course. ---
**Author:** ![Gatopescado](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/gatopescado/32/5711_2.png) [@Gatopescado](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Gatopescado)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:33am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/33 "2007-08-09T06:33:08Z")
With a Crayon. ---
**Author:** ![Sublight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/439d5e/32.png) [@Sublight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sublight)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 7:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/34 "2007-08-09T07:14:08Z")
Rep. Capuano voted No, as did Sen. Kennedy. Sen. Kerry sat on his ass. It appears the measure needed 60 votes in the Senate to pass, which is exactly what it received. All that is necessary, Senator Kerry, all that is necessary. ---
**Author:** ![Cyberhwk](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/7993a0/32.png) [@Cyberhwk](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cyberhwk)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 7:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/35 "2007-08-09T07:48:46Z")
Hastings (R) - Yea (I voted for the other guy) Cantwell (D) - Nay Murry (D) - Didn’t vote. :dubious: So I’m 1-1-1. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![David\_Simmons](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/9de053/32.png) [@David\_Simmons](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/David_Simmons)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 1:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/36 "2007-08-09T13:53:14Z")
[QUOTE=straykat23] My congresswoman, Doris Matsui (D, CA) voted Nay. Senator Dianne Feinstein (D, CA) also voted Nay. Senator Barbara Boxer (D, CA) didn’t cast a vote on this one; had she, I guarantee she’d have also voted Nay. [/QUOTE] Sites on the net [such as this one](http://redstatemobile.com/node/110937) list Feinstein as voting “aye.” ---
**Author:** ![Diceman](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/22d042/32.png) [@Diceman](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Diceman)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/37 "2007-08-09T16:29:00Z")
[QUOTE=David Simmons] Sites on the net [such as this one](http://redstatemobile.com/node/110937) list Feinstein as voting “aye.” [/QUOTE] The official role call (see post #3 for link) agrees. Feinstein voted yes. ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Moto](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/9de0a6/32.png) [@Mr.Moto](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Moto)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 4:47pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/38 "2007-08-09T16:47:13Z")
Seems like this one split the Democrats pretty badly, huh? And I notice already that the more strident websites of activism are going after those Democrats who voted “yea” with a vengeance. I’m reminded of 1968, where the riots were in Chicago and not Miami Beach. The Democrats have to decide whether they are going to be a governing party or an activist party, and issues like this are the decision point. ---
**Author:** ![Kyla](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/eada6e/32.png) [@Kyla](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kyla)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 6:09pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/39 "2007-08-09T18:09:03Z")
All three of my representatives voted nay. I usually like my representatives. (I live, in theory, anyway, in Illinois’ 5th.) Feinstein is a bizznatch. I usually vote for Dems, but I voted for the Green candidate last time she came up for election. (I was in California at the time, obviously.) ---
**Author:** ![jayjay](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jayjay/32/6765_2.png) [@jayjay](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jayjay)\ **Post date:** [August 9, 2007, 8:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862/40 "2007-08-09T20:49:04Z")
[QUOTE=Mr. Moto] Seems like this one split the Democrats pretty badly, huh? And I notice already that the more strident websites of activism are going after those Democrats who voted “yea” with a vengeance. I’m reminded of 1968, where the riots were in Chicago and not Miami Beach. The Democrats have to decide whether they are going to be a governing party or an activist party, and issues like this are the decision point. [/QUOTE] Gee, you’d think a governing party would actually govern instead of allowing the executive and the Republicans to reduce our freedoms further. Fer Og’s sake, they basically put Alberto Gonzales in charge of deciding who gets eavesdropped on! ALBERTO GONZALES! How stupid do you have to be to vote for that? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862.md?page=1) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/how-did-your-congressman-vote-on-the-fisa-bill/414862.md?page=3)