Holt rails against FISA bill

How they voted... (4.00 / 1)

Here's the roll call...

Yea
Garrett
Ferguson
Frelinghuysen
LoBiondo
Saxton
Smith
Sires

Nea
Andrews
Holt
Pallone
Pascrell
Payne
Rothman

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by: Jason Springer @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 18:34:22 PM UTC

Holt (0.00 / 0)

Glad that Holt spoke up for what he believed in.

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by: CD Rates @ Wed Nov 11, 2009 at 01:15:29 AM UTC

[ Parent ]

Amen, Rush (4.00 / 1)

Good for him for speaking out.

And as an aside, let me just say that it's nice to know where Rob Andrews's heart is on this. A lot of folks said that any progressive votes he cast in the last year or so were made only because he had the Senate primary in mind. With the primary over, that's obviously not the case here. Good for Rob.

And good for the rest of our delegation to who stood up to this absurd evisceration of our fourth amendment rights.

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by: Scott Shields @ Fri Jun 20, 2008 at 20:40:26 PM UTC

Other Voices (0.00 / 0)

Glenn Greenwald:

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g...

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by: SmartyJones @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 00:32:34 AM UTC

Rush Holt (0.00 / 0)

At TPM:

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsme...

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by: SmartyJones @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 00:36:17 AM UTC

I'd like to underscore the fact (4.00 / 2)

 that in 2006, when the Congress was controlled by Bill Frist and Denny Hastert, the administration tried to get a bill passed legalizing warrantless eavesdropping and telecom amnesty, but was unable. They had to wait until the Congress was controlled by Steny Hoyer, Nancy Pelosi and Harry Reid to accomplish that.

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g...

Nice move Sherlocks.

Dump Reid, Dodd for leader.

Check out my 3 paragraph primer on Polywell Fusion.

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by: FogerRox @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 01:09:44 AM UTC

dissapointing vote from Rep. Sires (0.00 / 0)

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by: vingopal @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 17:19:00 PM UTC

Other Voices II (0.00 / 0)

More of Glen Greenwald at Salon.com -

http://www.salon.com/opinion/g...

A lot of you prolly won't like his commentary.

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by: SmartyJones @ Sat Jun 21, 2008 at 17:30:30 PM UTC

Yes (4.00 / 1)

Hear, hear, Rep. Holt.  I was really surprised and sorely disappointed when I heard about this turn of events.

Boy, was I so wrong in my hopes and expectations of Nancy Pelosi.  What's the matter with her?

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by: tracey @ Sun Jun 22, 2008 at 02:34:19 AM UTC