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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsCheck THIS out!!! Members of Congress positions on SOPA/PIPA - Graphic
Yesterday's going dark protest of SOPA DID make a difference
Graphic here:
K8-EEE
(15,667 posts)eridani
(51,907 posts)Republicans on the House Judiciary Committee
Adams (FL-24): ??
Amodei (NV-2): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Chabot (OH-1): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Chaffetz (UT-3): Oppose
Coble (NC 6): ??
Forbes (VA-4): ??
Franks (AZ-2): ??
Gallegly (CA-24): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Gohmert (TX-1): ??
Goodlatte (VA-6): Support
Gowdy (SC-4): ??
Griffin (AR-2): Oppose
Issa (CA-49): Oppose
Jordan: (OH-4): ??
King (IA-5): ??
Lungren (CA-3): ??
Marino (PA-10): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Pence (IN-6): ??
Poe (TX-2): ??
Quayle (AZ-3): Oppose
Ross (FL-12): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Sensenbrenner, Jr. (WI-5): Oppose
The count among Republicans on House Judiciary is:
Support: 6 (including 5 co-sponsors)
Oppose: 5
Unknown: 11
Democrats on the House Judiciary Committee
Berman (CA-28): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Chu (CA-32): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Cohen (TN-9): ??
Conyers (MI-14): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Deutch (FL-19): Support (Co-Sponsor)
Jackson-Lee (TX-18): Leaning Oppose
Johnson (GA-4): ??
Lofgren (CA-16): Oppose
Nadler (NY-8): ??
Polis (CO-2): Oppose
Quigley (IL-5): ??
Sanchez (CA-39): ??
Scott (VA-3): ??
Waters (CA-35): ??
Watt (NC-12): Support (Co-Sponsor)
The count among Democrats on House Judiciary is:
Support: 5 (all 5 are co-sponsors)
Oppose: 2
Leaning Oppose: 1
Unknown: 7
ohheckyeah
(9,314 posts)do you have a link where the graphics are bigger?
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)http://www.propublica.org/nerds/item/sopa-opera-update
then when you're there click on the graphic and it will open in a new window then you can click again to make it bigger.
Xipe Totec
(44,148 posts)Fear so palpable, that their sphincter quivers and spasms.
U4ikLefty
(4,012 posts)cheerleaders take note
Solly Mack
(93,349 posts)Occulus
(20,599 posts)I don't think the effort can even be derisively called "slacktivism".
It worked.
fasttense
(17,301 posts)Don't let anyone tell you protests do NOT work. If not for the blackout, nothing would have changed. If not for the protests against the pipeline, Obama would have approved it.
justiceischeap
(14,040 posts)as I've read rumors over the net, if Facebook had participated, so would have Twitter and Google (they would have actually gone black). Of course, Facebook had about 12 million reasons not to go black that day.
ZombieHorde
(29,047 posts)Zorra
(27,670 posts)spanone
(137,816 posts)LanternWaste
(37,748 posts)That's a very dramatic shift in numbers which give me heart that they do indeed sometimes hear us... we simply have to be a bit louder (or quieter as the case may be in this instance) sometimes.
progressoid
(50,866 posts)Robb
(39,665 posts)Kidding, of course, but there are 111 total in the first graphic and 166 in the second. Presumably some fence-sitters decided to weigh in.