Senate rejects tougher standards for collection of search and browsing data

CNet ^ | May 13, 2020 10:02 a.m. PT | Laura Hautala

[sockmonkey]

Roll call votes here: https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=2&vote=00089

Being in TX, interesting Cruz voted yea, Cornyn, Nay

[sockmonkey]

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=2&vote=00089

[TexasGator]

https://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=116&session=2&vote=00089

[Zhang Fei]

Trump needs to say - I will veto.

[faithhopecharity]

repatriate send home the bad dangerous terrorist-related “immigrants” and we can get our civil liberties back!

[Saint Athanasius]

That is not surprising. Cruz for Liberty. Cornyn supports the Washington establishment.

[Howie66]

Cornyn is not one to be trusted to do the right thing. Ever. I will have to be holding my nose tightly to be compelled to vote for his worthless, back-stabbing arse yet again, this November.

I can’t stand the sonovabitch.

[cowboyusa]

More D's voted yeah than rs.😡

[Lurkinanloomin]

The Senate voted it down, no need for a veto.

I support restricting the government’s ability to snoop on us, I’m surprised you don’t.

[sockmonkey]

Interesting division on the votes.

10 Democrats voted against the Wyden-Daines amendment that would have prohibited FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history.

Bernie Sanders didn’t show up to vote. It was defeated by one vote.

The 10 Democrats who joined GOP in defeating amendment to stop FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history: Carper, Casey, Feinstein, Hassan, Jones, Kaine, Manchin, Shaheen, Warner and Whitehorse.

[semimojo]

That is not surprising. Cruz for Liberty. Cornyn supports the Washington establishment.

59 means most didn't want it to pass and they negotiated which ones got to make their show vote in favor.

If Cruz had voted no someone else would have changed their no vote to yes. If there were already 59 yes votes Cruz probably would have voted no.

[Zhang Fei]

[The Senate voted it down, no need for a veto.

I support restricting the government’s ability to snoop on us, I’m surprised you don’t.]

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The veto is not for the failed amendment - it’s for the re-authorization of the expired sections of the Patriot Act. Given that it’s been used as a license to spy on Republican pols and deplorables, the whole thing should be repealed.

[sockmonkey]

*** 59 means most didn’t want it to pass and they negotiated which ones got to make their show vote in favor. ***

I agree. It’s all theater and there’s little difference when I look at the things both sides support.

Maybe it is a neocon/neoliberal thing, but since I am neither, I just feel sick a lot.

[tennmountainman]

Trump must veto this.

[Robert DeLong]

They were only amendments, so I don’t believe it would have gone to President Trump yet. Only final bills go to the president.

[Robert DeLong]

I support restricting the government’s ability to snoop on us, I’m surprised you don’t.

That what these amendments supposedly were to do. So perhaps he is upset that they were not accepted, I venture to guess, which means he desires the same as you. 8>)

[Lurkinanloomin]

Agree completely, there is no place for secret courts and spying on citizens in a free country.

[Lurkinanloomin]

Upthread he said he wants the Patriot act extension vetoed.
I agree, it never should have been passed.

[montag813]

We don't need the USA Patriot Act. It wouldn't have prevented 9/11, and it didn't prevent Boston, San Bernardino, Ft. Hood or Orlando.
It is utterly useless, except to provide hundreds of thousands of jobs for the DC/MD/VA government mafia complex, and the politicians whose families and friends profit handsomely from it, along with thousands of H1-Bs and Indian/Pakistan/Arab "immigrants".

[Robert DeLong]

But the vote wasn’t about it being extended. It was merely a vote on the amendments offered up to be included in the extension passage, when and if it passes. The amendments offered up did not pass, as it needed 60 votes to pass. Which means that pass or fail nothing goes to the president at this point. That won’t occur until the extension its self is passed. Then the president can veto it.