Who Was The Only U.S. Senator to Vote Against The "PATRIOT" Act in 2001?

[Hissyspit]

Answer found HERE.

Did you get it?

[MotherPetrie]

1. Yup!

[wercal]

4. I am always suspect of nearly unanimous legislation

[NYC_SKP]

2. Warren Feingold 2016. (nt)

[rhett o rick]

3. Our Democrats in Congress were a disgrace to the American idea of representative government.

They were worse than the Republicans. The Republicans were supporting their ideology. What were the Democrats supporting? They acted as cowards. Aftraid to stand up for the principles of the Democratic Party. We relied on them to at least try to keep the Republicans in check. But they failed. They got on their knees and groveled before the DimSon King. I hope the deaths of tens of thousands of innocent Iraqi children weigh heavy on their consciences.

I could never vote for one of these cowards for president. That means Ms. Clinton.

[awoke_in_2003]

5. One good one. nt

[Lifelong Protester]

6. MY Senator

And lordy, do we miss him.

[liberal_at_heart]

7. K&R

[blkmusclmachine]

8. 1 Party, 2 Faces.

[1ProudAtheist]

9. He Also

Voted FOR the approval of John Ashwipe for AG under The Village Idiot's administration. In my opinion, Feingold did more harm than good for this country. Not one of our brightest and shiniest pennies.

[Scuba]

17. Bwahahahahah. Good one!

[ReRe]

10. Is there any chance at all that Russ Feingold will run...

.... for any office again? He sure would make a good Majority Leader in the US Senate, huh? And no, I didn't get it. My mind went to Cynthia McKinney or Barbara Lee, but they are in the House (not the Senate.) Drew a complete blank on Russ Feingold, because my recall is almost null and void at this point of my life.

[JoeyT]

11. I might be misreading something,

but according to votesmart, Sanders voted Nay for the USA Patriot Act of 2001 and on the extensions.

http://votesmart.org/candidate/key-votes/27110/bernie-sanders/13/civil-liberties-and-civil-rights

I might have the wrong bill entirely. Republicans use the most Orwellian freaking names for bills that there might have been more than one of them.

Edited to add: Which isn't to take away from Russ Feingold, who I'd sell a kidney to have as an elected official in any capacity.

[a2liberal]

12. Sanders was in the House at the time

therefore he wasn't one of the Senators voting against it, but was one of the House Reps voting against it

[JoeyT]

13. Doh!

Yep, that is one hell of a misread. Thanks for the clarification!

[Hissyspit]

14. I had to actually go double-check that before I posted the OP

because it seems like he's been there forever. He just switched chambers.

[alp227]

15. Thanks to the TEA PARTY he's been replaced by Teabag freak RON JOHNSON.

RRrrrrrrrrrgh!! How could Wisconsin have done that?

[cascadiance]

16. He was also one of only five senators to vote against Telecomm Bill in Clinton's era...

... that should have never been passed.

(Simon, Wellstone, McCain, Feingold, Leahy)

[indepat]

18. The only senator who made the appropriate vote imo on the Patriot Act in 2001 was

voted out of office: this shows just how much someone's thinking is.

[LWolf]

19. Who were the senators to vote against the extension 2 years ago?

NAYs ---18
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Brown (D-OH)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Heller (R-NV)
Leahy (D-VT)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-CO)
Udall (D-NM)
Wyden (D-OR)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=112&session=1&vote=00081

Both of my Senators voted NAY.