Michele Bachman, Gene Green, Vote to EXTEND THE PATRIOT ACT "Spy-On-Citizens" Provisions

From: Rick Lux (by email from the FIRE CONGRESS Meetup):

You don't expect anything different from Gene Green, the corporate suck-up of the decade, but Michele Bachman?? She has recently been trying to pass herself off as this awesome constitutionalist. Chalk her up as another member of the GOP would-by constitutionalist neocon brigade.

Also of note is Houston's John Culberson who has recently received Ron Paul's unqualified endorsement. What's going on, Ron? Are you still endorsing Culberson? Why?

"You shall know them by their fruits" were probably be wisest words ever spoken and recorded.

Patriot ACT Renewal:

Patriot Act Without Reforms Passes House (Roll Call Included) posted 25th February 2010 in Democrats, Legislation, Liberty by An extension of the Patriot Act with no reforms of its abusive powers of unreasonable search and seizure against American citizens has passed the House of Representatives. The vote was 315 in favor of extending the Patriot Act without reform, 97 against, and 20 not voting. Search for information about the roll call of this vote on-line tonight, and you?ll just find this nameless tally of numbers. You won’t find the names. Why?

The reason is that the House Democratic leadership voted on the renewal of the Patriot Act in such a way as to hide the vote from the American people. Go to the web site of the Clerk of the House, and you?ll see no vote from today about the Patriot Act at all. What you will see is Roll Call 67, On Motion to Concur in Senate Amendments for H.R. 3961, the Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act. That's the vote on whether to extend the Patriot Act without any reforms of its abusive spying programs. It doesn''t look like it, of course, but the Patriot Act extension is what's referred to by Senate Amendments.

The Senate Democrats sneaked the Patriot Act extension into a Medicare reform bill, and then voted by voice vote to approve the amendment so that no politician would have to have their name attached to this shameless abandonment of liberty.

The House Democrats benefited from the maneuver as well, being able to vote on unnamed amendments related to Medicare reform, rather than having it on the record for everyone to see that they voted to renew the worst abuses of the Patriot Act without any effort to protect Americans from their spying powers at all. We here at Irregular Times refuse to go along with this underhanded political charade.

NAMING NAMES:

We?re naming names. Let's start with those members of the House of Representatives who got it right:

Representatives With The Courage To Vote NO:
Neil Abercrombie, Tammy Baldwin, Roscoe Bartlett, Xavier Becerra, Howard Berman, Rob Bishop, Earl Blumenauer, John Boccieri, Bruce Braley, Mike Capuano, Jason Chaffetz, Judy Chu, Yvette Clarke, Emanuel Cleaver, Cohen, Jerry Costello, Joe Crowley, Elijah Cummings, Pete DeFazio, John Dingell, Lloyd Doggett, John Duncan, Donna Edwards, Vern Ehlers, Ellison, Eliot Engel, Sam Farr, Bob Filner, Barney Frank, Marcia Fudge, Al Green, Raul Grijalva, Phil Hare, Jane Harman, Alcee Hastings, Dean Heller, Maurice Hinchey, Mazie Hirono, Rush Holt, Mike Honda, Hank Johnson, Tim Johnson, Walter Jones, Steve Kagen, Dennis Kucinich, John Larson, Barbara Lee, John Lewis, Dave Loebsack, Ben Luján, Dan Maffei, Carolyn Maloney, Ed Markey, Doris Matsui, Betsy McCollum, McDermott, James McGovern, Gregory Meeks, Michael Michaud, George Miller, Walt Minnick, Gwen Moore, Jerrold Nadler, Richard Neal, Jim Oberstar, John Olver, Frank Pallone, Ed Pastor, Ron Paul, Don Payne, Tom Perriello, Chellie Pingree, Jared Polis, David Price, Laura Richardson, Tim Ryan, Linda Sánchez, Loretta Sanchez, John Sarbanes, Jan Schakowsky, Robert Scott, Jose Serrano, Carol Shea-Porter, Brad Sherman, Jackie Speier, Mike Thompson, John Tierney, Ed Towns, Nydia Velázquez, Peter Visclosky, Maxine Waters, Mel Watt, Henry Waxman, Peter Welch, Lynn Woolsey, David Wu, Don Young

The big surprise vote: Barney Frank. I guess it's like the clock that won't run. It still shows the correct time twice every day.

This is the list of those who stood by and did nothing.

Not Voting:
Gresham Barrett, Tim Bishop, Rick Boucher, Lois Capps, Nathan Deal, Charles Dent, Mary Fallin, Phil Gingrey, Ralph Hall, Connie Mack, Sue Myrick, Joseph Pitts, Tom Price, George Radanovich, Dave Reichert, Pete Stark, Bart Stupak, John Sullivan, Lynn Westmoreland, Joe Wilson

And finally, the pure scoundrels of the day, the U.S. Representatives who
voted to extend the worst parts of the Patriot Act, aspects of the law known to
be routinely abused, targeting American citizens, without any reforms
whatsoever.

Non-Representing, Representatives voting AYE to more spying without reform:

Gary Ackerman, Aderholt, John Adler, Todd Akin, Rodney Alexander, Jason Altmire, Rob Andrews, Mike Arcuri, Steve Austria, Joe Baca, Michele Bachmann, Spencer Bachus, Brian Baird, John Barrow, Joe Barton, Melissa Bean, Shelly Berkley, Marion Berry, Judy Biggert, Brian Bilbray, Gus Bilirakis, Sanford Bishop, Marsha Blackburn, Roy Blunt, John Boehner, Jo Bonner, Mary Bono Mack, John Boozman, Dan Boren, Leon Boswell, Charles Boustany, Allen Boyd, Bob Brady, Kevin Brady, Bobby Bright, Paul Broun, Henry Brown, Corrine Brown, Ginny Brown-Waite, Vern Buchanan, Mike Burgess, Dan Burton, G. K. Butterfield, Steve Buyer, Ken Calvert, Dave Camp, John Campbell, Eric Cantor, Joseph Cao, Shelly Capito, Dennis Cardoza, Russ Carnahan, Chris Carney, Andre Carson, John Carter, Bill Cassidy, Mike Castle, Kathy Castor, Ben Chandler, Travis Childers, William Lacy Clay, Jim Clyburn, Howard Coble, Mike Coffman, Tom Cole, Mike Conaway, Gerry Connolly, John Conyers, Jim Cooper, Jim Costa, Joe Courtney, Ander Crenshaw, Henry Cuellar, John Culberson, Kathleen Dahlkemper, Artur Davis, Susan Davis, Danny Davis, Geoff Davis, Lincoln Davis, Diana DeGette, William Delahunt, Rosa DeLauro, Lincoln Diaz-Balart, Mario Diaz-Balart, Norm Dicks, Joe Donnelly, Mike Doyle, David Dreier, Steve Driehaus, Chet Edwards, Brad Ellsworth, Jo Ann Emerson, Anna Eshoo, Bob Etheridge, Chaka Fattah, Jeff Flake, John Fleming, Randy Forbes, Jeff Fortenberry, Bill Foster, Virginia Foxx, Trent Franks, Rodney Frelinghuysen, Elton Gallegly, John Garamendi, Scott Garrett, Jim Gerlach, Gabrielle Giffords, Louie Gohmert, Charles Gonzalez, Bob Goodlatte, Bart Gordon, Kay Granger, Sam Graves, Alan Grayson, Gene Green, Parker Griffith, Brett Guthrie, Luis Gutierrez, John Hall, Deborah Halvorson, Greg Harper, Doc Hastings, Martin Heinrich, Jeb Hensarling, Wally Herger, Stephanie Herseth Sandlin, Brian Higgins, Baron Hill, James Himes, Ruben Hinojosa, Paul Hodes, Peter Hoekstra, Tim Holden, Steny Hoyer, Duncan Hunter, Bob Inglis, Jay Inslee, Steve Israel, Darrel Issa, Jesse Jackson, Sheila Jackson Lee, Lynn Jenkins, Eddie Bernice Johnson, Sam Johnson, Jim Jordan, Paul Kanjorski, Marcy Kaptur, Patrick Kennedy, Dale Kildee, Carolyn Kilpatrick, Mary Jo Kilroy, Ron Kind, Steve King, Peter King, Jack Kingston, Mark Kirk, Ann Kirkpatrick, Larry Kissell, Ron Klein, John Kline, Suzanne Kosmas, Frank Kratovil, Doug Lamborn, Leonard Lance, James Langevin, Rick Larsen, Tom Latham, Steven LaTourette, Bob Latta, Chris Lee, Sander Levin, Jerry Lewis, John Linder, Dan Lipinski, Frank LoBiondo, Zoe Lofgren, Nita Lowey, Frank Lucas, Blaine Luetkemeyer, Cynthia Lummis, Dan Lungren, Stephen Lynch, Don Manzullo, Kenny Marchant, Betsy Markey, Jim Marshall, Eric Massa, Jim Matheson, Kevin McCarthy, Carolyn McCarthy, Mike McCaul, Tom McClintock, Thad McCotter, Patrick McHenry, Mike McIntyre, Buck McKeon, Mike McMahon, Cathy McMorris Rodgers, Jerry McNerney, Kendrick Meek, Charles Melancon, John Mica, Jeff Miller, Candice Miller, Brad Miller, Gary Miller, Harry Mitchell, Alan Mollohan, Dennis Moore, Jerry Moran, James Moran, Chris Murphy, Scott Murphy, Patrick Murphy, Tim Murphy, Grace Napolitano, Randy Neugebauer, Devin Nunes, Glenn Nye, Dave Obey, Peter Olson, Solomon Ortiz, Bill Owens, Bill Pascrell, Erik Paulsen, Mike Pence, Ed Perlmutter, Gary Peters, Collin Peterson, Tom Petri, Todd Platts, Ted Poe, Earl Pomeroy, Bill Posey, Adam Putnam, Mike Quigley, Nick Rahall, Charles Rangel, Denny Rehberg, Silvestre Reyes, Ciro Rodriguez, David Roe, Mike Rogers, Harold Rogers, Mike Rogers, Dana Rohrabacher, Tom Rooney, Ileana Ros-Lehtinen, Peter Roskam, Mike Ross, Steve Rothman, Lucille Roybal-Allard, Ed Royce, Dutch Ruppersberger, Bobby Rush, Paul Ryan, John Salazar, Steve Scalise, Mark Schauer, Adam Schiff, Jean Schmidt, Aaron Schock, Kurt Schrader, Allyson Schwartz, David Scott, James Sensenbrenner, Pete Sessions, Joe Sestak, John Shadegg, John Shimkus, Heath Shuler, Bill Shuster, Mike Simpson, Albio Sires, Ike Skelton, Louise Slaughter, Adrian Smith, Christopher Smith, Lamar Smith, Adam Smith, Vic Snyder, Souder, Zack Space, John Spratt, Cliff Stearns, Betty Sutton, John Tanner, Gene Taylor, Harry Teague, Lee Terry, Bennie Thompson, Glenn Thompson, Mac Thornberry, Todd Tiahrt, Patrick Tiberi, Dina Titus, Paul Tonko, Niki Tsongas, Michael Turner, Fred Upton, Chris Van Hollen, Greg Walden, Tim Walz, Zach Wamp, Debbie Wasserman Schultz, Diane Watson, Anthony Weiner, Ed Whitfield, Charles Wilson, Rob Wittman, Frank Wolf, John Yarmuth, Bill Young

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