> Feinstein didn't vote against renewal, she ...[supported] an amendment, which was defeated I'm curious if anyone knows the Washington dirt on this one. Fein

> Feinstein didn't vote against renewal, she ...[supported] an amendment, which was defeated I'm curious if anyone knows the Washington dirt on this one. Feinstein has a long history of being aggressively pro-surveillance, far more than basically any other Democrat. (Something to do with having her house bombed and shot at early in her career, perhaps...) For Congresspeople with awkward positions, it's pretty standard to take the occasional favorable-looking vote on something you know is doomed to fail. So... would Feinstein have known in advance that the 702 amendment was doomed? And, harder to prove, would she have voted differently if it hadn't been?