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From 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 th
by YokoZar 13y ago
From 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.