Senate passes extension of Patriot Act provisions

[Newsjock]

Source: Los Angeles Times

The Senate late Tuesday passed a three-month extension of provisions of the USA Patriot Act as Congress works to avoid a lapse of elements of the terrorist surveillance program that expire at the end of the month.

Senate Democrats are hoping to avoid interjecting the national security issue into the 2012 presidential campaign by sending their bill to the Republican-led House, which earlier this week overcame opposition from conservative lawmakers to pass an extension through Dec. 8.

The Senate voted 86-12 to extend three expiring provisions of the act that became law after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks. Two Republicans, "tea-party"-backed Sen. Rand Paul (R-Ky.) and Sen. Mike Lee (R-Utah), joined Democrats in voting against the bill.

Read more: http://www.latimes.com/news/politics/la-pn-0215-patriot-act-senate-20110215,0,4310410.story

[msongs]

1. congratulations, we are being Mubaraked ..... again nt

[Solly Mack]

2. K&R

[fascisthunter]

3. one step closer to a complete fascist state

[SharksBreath]

18. How much closer can we get. We are already there.

[cutlassmama]

23. yep

[Ter]

4. I knew Mike Lee would vote against it

Hell, at least he's consistent. Probably the most intelligent right-winger I have ever met.

[somone]

5. Recommended

[NeoConsSuck]

6. Call it what it is:

it is not a terrorist surveillance program. It is an American citizen surveillance program.

[Ignis]

10. ^^ This.

:argh:

[ProSense]

7. Roll Call

Roll Call

YEAs ---86
Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Ayotte (R-NH)
Barrasso (R-WY)
Bennet (D-CO)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Blumenthal (D-CT)
Blunt (R-MO)
Boozman (R-AR)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brown (R-MA)
Burr (R-NC)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Cardin (D-MD)
Carper (D-DE)
Casey (D-PA)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Coats (R-IN)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Coons (D-DE)
Corker (R-TN)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Crapo (R-ID)
DeMint (R-SC)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Franken (D-MN)
Gillibrand (D-NY)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Hagan (D-NC)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hoeven (R-ND)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Johanns (R-NE)
Johnson (D-SD)
Johnson (R-WI)
Kirk (R-IL)
Klobuchar (D-MN)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (ID-CT)
Lugar (R-IN)
Manchin (D-WV)
McCain (R-AZ)
McCaskill (D-MO)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Moran (R-KS)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Portman (R-OH)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Risch (R-ID)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Rubio (R-FL)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shaheen (D-NH)
Shelby (R-AL)
Snowe (R-ME)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Thune (R-SD)
Toomey (R-PA)
Udall (D-CO)
Vitter (R-LA)
Warner (D-VA)
Webb (D-VA)
Whitehouse (D-RI)
Wicker (R-MS)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs ---12
Baucus (D-MT)
Begich (D-AK)
Brown (D-OH)
Harkin (D-IA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Lee (R-UT)
Merkley (D-OR)
Murray (D-WA)
Paul (R-KY)
Sanders (I-VT)
Tester (D-MT)
Udall (D-NM)

Not Voting - 2
Kerry (D-MA)
Pryor (D-AR)

[EvilMonsanto]

8. ??

Do you have a Rep. vs. Dem number on yay or nay?

I don't feel like running through your list manually like that, anyone already know?

[rurallib]

13. against 2 repub, 10 dems, 2 dems abstain

everybody else for.
what's that leave 44 R and 42 D?

[marasinghe]

15. didn't take gillibrand long to sign on to the company line.

:eyes:

[lib2DaBone]

17. Look at all those D's that voted yes.... gutless wonders....

[bbgrunt]

20. oh, that list is sickening: boxer, leahy, franken, whitehouse.

:puke:

[ixion]

9. They see We, the People as the enemy

it's quite clear.

[DissedByBush]

11. Uh, we still control the Senate, right?

WTF?!

[IamK]

14. depends on who "we" is I guess....

[2Design]

12. crap

[Name removed]

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[Capitalocracy]

19. AVOID interjecting it into the 2012 campaign?

I say make it an issue! If you ever plan on changing it, that is, which apparently they don't...

Trying to avoid making it an issue? That's their excuse for voting for fascism? And we're supposed to just take it and say well, that's how you play three-dimensional chess! Bollocks.

[The Straight Story]

21. kick (nt)

[Ter]

22. Not gonna be popular, but this is why the 17th Amendment was the dumbest thing we ever did

The Senate is full of Dinos and Rinos, all gutless moderates who refuse to take a stand on controversial issues. It's very rare that true ideologues of either side ever get elected to the Senate. Not so in the House. 10 Democrats voting no while the majority voted no in the House? 2 true Tea Baggers, yet 27 in the House? Disgusting, and we have nothing to blame except 1913.

[ProSense]

24. "17th Amendment was the dumbest thing we ever did...2 true Tea Baggers"

You're a fan of regression?