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Interesting votes: Nay I Sanders, Bernie VT No Vote R Cruz, Ted TX No Vote R Graham, Lindsey SC No Vote R Paul, Rand KY No Vote R
by mikehotel 11y ago
Interesting votes:
Nay I Sanders, Bernie VT
No Vote R Cruz, Ted TX
No Vote R Graham, Lindsey SC
No Vote R Paul, Rand KY
No Vote R Rubio, Marco FL
Above from GovTrack [1]
Note, the Guardian [2] has Sen. Graham as voting yes.
> Democratic presidential contender Bernie Sanders voted against the bill. None of the Republican presidential candidates (except Lindsey Graham, who voted in favor) were present to cast a vote, including Rand Paul, who has made privacy from surveillance a major plank of his campaign platform.
[1] https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/s291 https://www.govtrack.us/congress/votes/114-2015/s291
[2] http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/cisa-cybersecurity-bill-senate-vote http://www.theguardian.com/world/2015/oct/27/cisa-cybersecur...
- tptacek 11y agoThat kind of makes sense, because the bill cleared its cloture vote with overwhelming support, and if you follow the amendments from the beginning, pretty much everyone seems to have had their fingers in it. There's nothing anyone could have done to change the outcome.
- druddha 11y agoBut it's much easier to tell a reporter, "I voted against CISA" than it is to explain cloture.
- bostonpete 11y agoThen why didn't any candidate except Sanders vote against it?
- adventured 11y agoPaul for example is running for President. He has to be at the debate if he even wants to pretend to still be in the running. Could he be in both places in the same day? I don't know, I guess you'd have to find out how plausible that is in terms of debate preparation.
- druddha 11y agoI didn't realize the Republican Debate was tonight. Either way, they will get another chance to cast a vote on the conference report.
- maaku 11y ago"I did not vote for CISA"