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Watch the debate and vote on the Amash amendment in the House of Reps
- balanon 13y agoI read it as "Amish" the first time. Now I'm sad that it's not that word.
- julespitt 13y agoI'm watching, here is who is for or against in their remarks so far: +1 = Amash -1 = Rogers +1 = Conyers -1 = Bachmann +1 = Sensenbrenner -1 = Mulvaney +1 = Lofgren +1 = Barton +1 = Duncan +1 = Poe +1 = Nadler +1 = Gabbard -1 = Cotton And it did not pass on a voice vote. Amash is asking for a recorded vote. Not clear what happens now. Edit: Amash recorded vote coming up in a couple minutes. Edit2: Two minute vote, apparently. Begins now 6:50pm EST. Edit3: Fails to pass. Yea - 205, Nay - 217.
- rabidonrails 13y agoI believe they go through the docket of unfinished ammds. first and then come back to vote on the most current ammd.
- YokoZar 13y agoFrom what I observed it seemed like the chair called for a voice vote, where it sounded like an approximately even number of people said "Aye" and "Nay", and the chair then just declared the nay's the winner and then ignored requests to actually count and record the votes.
- tptacek 13y agoNo, there's a recorded vote, it's just happening after the one for Pompeo's amendment. I heard a louder chorus of "No's", unfortunately. The "No" arguments on this were particularly dumb.
- rabidonrails 13y agoWhy is this bill specifically on the phone metadata? There are other things that the Amash ammd. could go after, do we assume that this is the lowest hanging fruit?
- tptacek 13y agoYes, that's my guess.
- julespitt 13y agoNot sure. It was interesting that both Bachmann & Cotton were explicitly stating that no one had a Fourth Amendment Right to privacy about any Metadata. For instance, what you say in a letter or phone call is private, but not who you say it to. Never even heard this idea before.
- tptacek 13y agoI wouldn't take Bachmann very seriously; she also doesn't seem to believe that NSA has phone books.
- drivebyacct2 13y agoSent a few tweets, retweeted tptacek and I get a pissed off message from a friend complaining about me tweeting too much. Good to know 5 tweets in a row is a noteworthy event but the NSA dragnetting the American public isn't worthy of a peep.
- AsymetricCom 13y agoJust let CPAN know how easily your opinions and emotions are set on things you don't understand.
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- charonn0 13y agoThe Amash amendment failed by 16 votes (201 to 217). Edit: Final tally is 205-217.
- rabidonrails 13y agoI see 205-217?
- tptacek 13y agoI think it's important to keep in mind that the 12 vote margin is comfortable for Amash and supporters of new NSA restrictions and uncomfortable for its defenders. Here's why: opponents of Amash wielded an argument that "split the vote". Representatives who voted against Amash could have done so for one of two reasons: (1) They actively support providing the NSA with unchecked access to cell phone metadata under the "business records" provision of PATRIOT, or (2) They don't support that access, but can't support a broad amendment that potentially de-funds whole NSA programs, and instead need something finer grained to correct NSA with. Meanwhile, everyone who supported Amash believes strongly --- so strongly that they're willing to do something disruptive to NSA --- that new checks on NSA are needed. I think this was a pretty hopeful vote.