In addition to Himes, the Democrats who voted for the bill are Pete Aguilar (Calif.), Ami Bera (Calif.), Sanford Bishop (Ga.), Nikki Budzinski (Ill.), Janelle Bynum (Ore.), Ed Case (Hawaii), Kathy Castor (Fla.), Gil Cisneros (Calif.), Herb Conaway (NJ), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (NC), Lois Frankel (Fla.), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Josh Harder (Calif.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Steny Hoyer (Md.), Greg Landsman (Ohio), Susie Lee (Nev.), Kristen McDonald Rivet (Mich.), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.), Frank Mrvan (Ind.), Donald Norcross (NJ), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Scott Peters (Calif.), Mike Quigley (Ill.), Josh Riley (NY), Brad Schneider (Ill.), Kim Schrier (Wash.), Terri Sewell (Ala.), Eric Sorensen (Ill.), Darren Soto (Fla.), Marilyn Strickland (Wash.), Tom Suozzi (NY), Derek Tran (Calif.), Gabe Vasquez (NM), Marc Veasey (Texas), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), and George Whitesides (Calif.).
"Forty-two Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans in voting to pass a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without any amendments to close the data broker loophole, allowing the U.S. government to purchase Americans’ information from companies like Google and Meta, or the backdoor search loophole, which allows the American intelligence apparatus to access, without a warrant, the communications of any citizen who has contact with a person outside the United States and use the data to spy on them or even recruit them to an intelligence agency."
I'm not a "uniparty" person, but shit like this makes it really tough to distinguish between Washington's two PR firms: Team Blue, Team Red.
A link revealing the 42 House Democrats that voted for the FISA renewal would be insightful for readers. Thank you.
In addition to Himes, the Democrats who voted for the bill are Pete Aguilar (Calif.), Ami Bera (Calif.), Sanford Bishop (Ga.), Nikki Budzinski (Ill.), Janelle Bynum (Ore.), Ed Case (Hawaii), Kathy Castor (Fla.), Gil Cisneros (Calif.), Herb Conaway (NJ), Henry Cuellar (Texas), Don Davis (NC), Lois Frankel (Fla.), Laura Gillen (NY), Jared Golden (Maine), Vicente Gonzalez (Texas), Josh Gottheimer (NJ), Josh Harder (Calif.), Chrissy Houlahan (Pa.), Steny Hoyer (Md.), Greg Landsman (Ohio), Susie Lee (Nev.), Kristen McDonald Rivet (Mich.), Jared Moskowitz (Fla.), Frank Mrvan (Ind.), Donald Norcross (NJ), Marie Gluesenkamp Perez (Wash.), Scott Peters (Calif.), Mike Quigley (Ill.), Josh Riley (NY), Brad Schneider (Ill.), Kim Schrier (Wash.), Terri Sewell (Ala.), Eric Sorensen (Ill.), Darren Soto (Fla.), Marilyn Strickland (Wash.), Tom Suozzi (NY), Derek Tran (Calif.), Gabe Vasquez (NM), Marc Veasey (Texas), Debbie Wasserman Schultz (Fla.), and George Whitesides (Calif.).
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"Forty-two Democrats in the House of Representatives joined Republicans in voting to pass a reauthorization of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act without any amendments to close the data broker loophole, allowing the U.S. government to purchase Americans’ information from companies like Google and Meta, or the backdoor search loophole, which allows the American intelligence apparatus to access, without a warrant, the communications of any citizen who has contact with a person outside the United States and use the data to spy on them or even recruit them to an intelligence agency."
I'm not a "uniparty" person, but shit like this makes it really tough to distinguish between Washington's two PR firms: Team Blue, Team Red.