Patriot Act Extension SHAME List:

[Earth_First]

YEAs -95

Akaka (D-HI)
Alexander (R-TN)
Allard (R-CO)
Allen (R-VA)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Bennett (R-UT)
Biden (D-DE)
Bond (R-MO)
Boxer (D-CA)
Brownback (R-KS)
Bunning (R-KY)
Burns (R-MT)
Burr (R-NC)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Chafee (R-RI)
Chambliss (R-GA)
Clinton (D-NY)
Coburn (R-OK)
Cochran (R-MS)
Coleman (R-MN)
Collins (R-ME)
Conrad (D-ND)
Cornyn (R-TX)
Craig (R-ID)
Crapo (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
DeMint (R-SC)
DeWine (R-OH)
Dodd (D-CT)
Dole (R-NC)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Ensign (R-NV)
Enzi (R-WY)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Graham (R-SC)
Grassley (R-IA)
Gregg (R-NH)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Hatch (R-UT)
Hutchison (R-TX)
Inhofe (R-OK)
Inouye (D-HI)
Isakson (R-GA)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Johnson (D-SD)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Kyl (R-AZ)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Lugar (R-IN)
Martinez (R-FL)
McCain (R-AZ)
McConnell (R-KY)
Menendez (D-NJ)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Nelson (D-NE)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Roberts (R-KS)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Santorum (R-PA)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Sessions (R-AL)
Shelby (R-AL)
Smith (R-OR)
Snowe (R-ME)
Specter (R-PA)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Stevens (R-AK)
Sununu (R-NH)
Talent (R-MO)
Thune (R-SD)
Vitter (R-LA)
Voinovich (R-OH)
Warner (R-VA)
Wyden (D-OR)

NAYs -1

Feingold (D-WI)

ONE Democrat!? ONE!?

[Dragonbreathp9d]

1. I think that if it was extention

or permanent, I'm all for extention

[Mass]

4. It was extension

[ayeshahaqqiqa]

2. Thanks for the information

looks like I need to educate my Senators on what the Patriot Act will do if made permanent.

[blm]

11. The whole point of extension is so the PA could NOT be made permanent

The extension gives more time for the changes the Dems, including Feingold, and some Repubs wanted can be made.

Feingold voted for the first extension and this vote is pure symbolism.

[radio4progressives]

15. I don't think it's pure symbolism, there were provisions slipped in this

extension, that were not made known previously - also bear in mind he just joined the intelligence committee, which held a hearing yesterday. There's a bunch of shit that has been going on and the PA has been used as a smoke screen as cover.

Also remember the R'wingers and Bush were making all sorts of threats that it needed to be extended now or our country would be attacked over the holidays nonsense. So i do not think the first extension was for symbolism, could have went ahead and voted for that extension to legitimize his call to make meaningful revisions or do away with it altogether.

[ProSense]

17. There was nothing slipped in it was just an extension. There were no

amendments. It's an extension similar to the previous action after the Democrats filibustere, then all agreed to extened without objection;


U.S. Senate Roll Call Votes 109th Congress - 1st Session

as compiled through Senate LIS by the Senate Bill Clerk under the direction of the Secretary of the Senate


Vote Summary

Question: On the Cloture Motion (Motion to Invoke Cloture on the Conference to Accompany H.R. 3199 )
Vote Number: 358 Vote Date: December 16, 2005, 11:54 AM
Required For Majority: 3/5 Vote Result: Cloture Motion Rejected
Measure Number: H.R. 3199 (USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 )
Measure Title: A bill to extend and modify authorities needed to combat terrorism, and for other purposes.


NAYs ---47
Akaka (D-HI)
Baucus (D-MT)
Bayh (D-IN)
Biden (D-DE)
Bingaman (D-NM)
Boxer (D-CA)
Byrd (D-WV)
Cantwell (D-WA)
Carper (D-DE)
Clinton (D-NY)
Conrad (D-ND)
Corzine (D-NJ)
Craig (R-ID)
Dayton (D-MN)
Dorgan (D-ND)
Durbin (D-IL)
Feingold (D-WI)
Feinstein (D-CA)
Frist (R-TN)
Hagel (R-NE)
Harkin (D-IA)
Inouye (D-HI)
Jeffords (I-VT)
Kennedy (D-MA)
Kerry (D-MA)
Kohl (D-WI)
Landrieu (D-LA)
Lautenberg (D-NJ)
Leahy (D-VT)
Levin (D-MI)
Lieberman (D-CT)
Lincoln (D-AR)
Mikulski (D-MD)
Murkowski (R-AK)
Murray (D-WA)
Nelson (D-FL)
Obama (D-IL)
Pryor (D-AR)
Reed (D-RI)
Reid (D-NV)
Rockefeller (D-WV)
Salazar (D-CO)
Sarbanes (D-MD)
Schumer (D-NY)
Stabenow (D-MI)
Sununu (R-NH)
Wyden (D-OR)

http://www.senate.gov/legislative/LIS/roll_call_lists/roll_call_vote_cfm.cfm?congress=109&session=1&vote=00358


Followed by


12/21/2005 Passed/agreed to in Senate: Introduced in the Senate, read twice, considered, read the third time, and passed without amendment by Unanimous Consent.
12/22/2005 Passed/agreed to in House: On passage Passed without objection.

[radio4progressives]

19. ok my bad... n/t

[blm]

18. BushInc wanted it permanent with no extensions. BushInc SETTLED for the

extension because they had no choice at that point.

[Mass]

3. This is a temporary extension (one month) so that they can

discuss the modifications that are necessary.

Focus on the next one. This is the one that is important.

[sinkingfeeling]

5. Wasn't this the vote to extend the damned thing and have an

opportunity to 'correct' those things that violate civil rights?

[Earth_First]

7. So do I understand this correctly...

that it was either an extension or a vote to make the current law(s) permanent?

I didn't understand it to be that way at all.

[Mass]

8. Text of the bill - Extend until March 10, 2006 (From Thomas)

To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act. (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)

--H.R.4659--

H.R.4659

One Hundred Ninth Congress

of the

United States of America

AT THE SECOND SESSION

Begun and held at the City of Washington on Tuesday,

the third day of January, two thousand and six

An Act

To amend the USA PATRIOT ACT to extend the sunset of certain provisions of such Act.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. EXTENSION OF CERTAIN PROVISIONS OF THE USA PATRIOT ACT.

Section 224(a) of the Uniting and Strengthening America by Providing Appropriate Tools Required to Intercept and Obstruct Terrorism (USA PATRIOT ACT) Act of 2001 (Public Law 107-56; 115 Stat. 295) is amended by striking `February 3, 2006' and inserting `March 10, 2006'.

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Vice President of the United States and

President of the Senate.

[helderheid]

13. yes. This is a GOOD thing.

[Cocoa]

6. what was this vote for?

[sinkingfeeling]

9. Another 5 week extension before a vote for renewal. Most Dems

and some Reps want a chance to take out some stuff and review for civil rights violations. This was a 'good' vote, although I think the Democrats originally wanted like a 6 month delay.

[blm]

10. We WANT an extension to enact a NEW Patriot Act minus the onerous parts.

Feingold's no this time was symbolic - he voted for the first extension.

[radio4progressives]

12. Feingold is completely dead set against the Patriot Act (as I am)

always was. He was the lone vote against it when it was first legislated in 2001 - and there was no reason for him to support an extension, when he would have it dead and buried forever.

The rest of the party are sheep on the issue of "security".

Feingold not only knows that's a bunch of horseshit, he's not afraid to say so.

Go Russ Feingold!!

[blm]

20. feingold is FOR a Senate version of Patriot Act that deletes the onerous

parts of it, just as many other Dems are and some Repubs. I think you misunderstand his actual position. He isn't against the needed parts of it that actually help our national security, he's against the parts that AREN'T needed or have proven onerous against US citizens.

[radio4progressives]

21. ok... i'm thinking about a provision they want to slip in which is gestapo

through and through.

i do know that Feingold has a visceral disdain for the Act in it's entirity, even though he agrees to vote in favor of it since the party decided it was a "good thing" to demonstrate deference to the needs of our security dog and pony show, necessary to win elections.

[Cocoa]

23. Feingold is actually much more nuanced than that

his opposition never struck me as visceral, it actually is very reasoned and legalistic.

And it's not the entirety of the legislation, or the idea of the legislation, that he's opposed to, only parts.

[karynnj]

22. Some parts of the Patriot Act were good

The problem was that they threw in many unrelated items that made it harder for terrorists to operate or as tools for actually trying to go after the terrorists using law enforcement techniques - which beats bombing whole countries.

One large piece of the legislation was essentially legislation that Kerry wrote after he helped bring down BCCI. In the 90s, Congress and the President were not interested in making international transfers of money more transparent or in controlling international money laundering. This is from a longer Kerry statement (2003) asking Bush to freeze assets of known Saudi Arabians who were connected to known terrorists.

"In response to the September 11, 2001, attacks on the United States, Senator Kerry worked with Senate Banking Chairman Sarbanes and Senator Levin to develop a package of anti-money laundering provisions which included his bill the International Counter-Money Laundering and Foreign Anti corruption Act. These anti-money laundering provisions were included in the USA PATRIOT Act, which was signed into law by President Bush in October 2001. "

Some other provisions in the original bill need fixing - but I don't think we want to go back to when a bank laundering drug money and supporting terrorists could buy their way into American banks and buy politicians from both parties to prevent anyone from taking them down. Kerry took BCCI down even though it made him a party outcast for awhile.

[Nutmegger]

14. What? Only one Dem against the un-"Patriot Act"?

Damn, I hope there are more "NAYs" when they vote on the real thing.

[EFerrari]

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