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Graham (R-SC) Blumenthal (D-CT)* Durbin (D-IL) Grassley (R-IA)* Feinstein (D-CA) Cornyn (R-TX) Whitehouse (D-RI) Hawley (R-MO) Hirono (D-HI) Kennedy (D

Graham (R-SC) Blumenthal (D-CT)* Durbin (D-IL) Grassley (R-IA)* Feinstein (D-CA) Cornyn (R-TX) Whitehouse (D-RI) Hawley (R-MO) Hirono (D-HI) Kennedy (D-LA)* Casey (D-PA) Blackburn (R-TN) Masto (D-NV)* Collins (R-ME) Hassan (D-NH)* Ernst (R-IA) Warner (D-VA) Hyde-Smith (R-MI) Murkowski (R-AK)* Portman (R-OH)* * are up for re-election this year. Bit of a pain to find this information really - couldn't find a single news outlet with a list of who introduced the bill. Kinda seems like they don't want to be known.

yareally 5y ago
> Portman (R-OH)* He's retiring this year. Candidates running for his spot in his party are likely to support it though
KerrAvon 5y ago
Feinstein really needs to go. CA can do so much better.
loteck 5y ago
By all means contact and organize on Senators, it's good practice. In my experience they are completely unresponsive to anything smaller than the largest and most funded groups. Still, making noise is only good. You may find your local house rep to be much more persuadable and willing to listen to your educated points of view. Getting their position stated publicly and on the record in either direction can be very meaningful.
1121redblackgo 5y ago
Really surprised Warner is on this list, and very unsurprised by the inclusion of both remarkable senators from Iowa
userbinator 5y ago
Exactly 10 on each side --- that's about as non-partisan as it gets.
- mrandish 5y ago
  I think a lot of us are no longer convinced traditional two-party partisanship is a useful lens through which to understand politics. Regardless of party, the politicians pushing this bill are overwhelmingly pro-surveillance state and pro-big government as well as being invested in perpetuating the two-party machine. Personally, I now see things more through a lens of those who perpetuate the two-party machine and big federal government on one side and those who are skeptical of both the eternally growing central government for it's own sake and the reduction of local and individual autonomy. Neither big party really represents many of my viewpoints as much in recent years. Even when I do agree with one of them on something, I now suspect many of the inter-party battles are as staged as pro-wrestling where the eventual prevailing side was already predetermined by special interests, lobbyists and the party machines. It's weird how many votes on something I care about fail to survive committee or amendment by just one vote. And the politicians who voted "against" the thing in the 'losing' party, all happen to be in very 'safe' districts or not facing reelection soon and those facing reelection in 'unsafe' districts happen to be the ones who voted "for" it. This happens far too often to statistically be random chance. I hate that this possibly makes me sound like a conspiracy nutjob but the math here says something's definitely going on behind the scenes.
  - aspenmayer 5y ago
    > It's weird how many votes on something I care about fail to survive committee or amendment by just one vote. And the politicians who voted "against" the thing in the 'losing' party, all happen to be in very 'safe' districts or not facing reelection soon and those facing reelection in 'unsafe' districts happen to be the ones who voted "for" it. This concept has been identified before, and popularized by Glenn Greenwald, dubbing it the “rotating villain,” which is a delightfully apt turn of phrase. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rotating%20villain https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rotating%20v... https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/ https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
    - mrandish 5y ago
      > popularized by Glenn Greenwald Ah, interesting. That is a nice name for the phenomenon. Thanks for the pointer.
greenie_beans 5y ago
Hyde-Smith is from MS not MI

yareally 5y ago

> Portman (R-OH)* He's retiring this year. Candidates running for his spot in his party are likely to support it though

KerrAvon 5y ago

Feinstein really needs to go. CA can do so much better.

loteck 5y ago

By all means contact and organize on Senators, it's good practice. In my experience they are completely unresponsive to anything smaller than the largest and most funded groups. Still, making noise is only good. You may find your local house rep to be much more persuadable and willing to listen to your educated points of view. Getting their position stated publicly and on the record in either direction can be very meaningful.

1121redblackgo 5y ago

Really surprised Warner is on this list, and very unsurprised by the inclusion of both remarkable senators from Iowa

userbinator 5y ago

Exactly 10 on each side --- that's about as non-partisan as it gets.

mrandish 5y ago
I think a lot of us are no longer convinced traditional two-party partisanship is a useful lens through which to understand politics. Regardless of party, the politicians pushing this bill are overwhelmingly pro-surveillance state and pro-big government as well as being invested in perpetuating the two-party machine. Personally, I now see things more through a lens of those who perpetuate the two-party machine and big federal government on one side and those who are skeptical of both the eternally growing central government for it's own sake and the reduction of local and individual autonomy. Neither big party really represents many of my viewpoints as much in recent years. Even when I do agree with one of them on something, I now suspect many of the inter-party battles are as staged as pro-wrestling where the eventual prevailing side was already predetermined by special interests, lobbyists and the party machines. It's weird how many votes on something I care about fail to survive committee or amendment by just one vote. And the politicians who voted "against" the thing in the 'losing' party, all happen to be in very 'safe' districts or not facing reelection soon and those facing reelection in 'unsafe' districts happen to be the ones who voted "for" it. This happens far too often to statistically be random chance. I hate that this possibly makes me sound like a conspiracy nutjob but the math here says something's definitely going on behind the scenes.
- aspenmayer 5y ago
  > It's weird how many votes on something I care about fail to survive committee or amendment by just one vote. And the politicians who voted "against" the thing in the 'losing' party, all happen to be in very 'safe' districts or not facing reelection soon and those facing reelection in 'unsafe' districts happen to be the ones who voted "for" it. This concept has been identified before, and popularized by Glenn Greenwald, dubbing it the “rotating villain,” which is a delightfully apt turn of phrase. https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rotating%20villain https://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=rotating%20v... https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/ https://www.salon.com/2010/02/23/democrats_34/
  - mrandish 5y ago
    > popularized by Glenn Greenwald Ah, interesting. That is a nice name for the phenomenon. Thanks for the pointer.

greenie_beans 5y ago

Hyde-Smith is from MS not MI