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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Obama administration made common cause with the House Republican leadership to try to block it.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/politics/house-defeats-effort-to-rein-in-nsa-data-gathering.html?smid=tw-share&_r=0House Defeats Effort to Rein In N.S.A. Data Gathering
Douglas Carpenter
(20,226 posts)Conservative Republicans leery of what they see as Obama administration abuses of power teamed up with liberal Democrats long opposed to intrusive intelligence programs. The Obama administration made common cause with the House Republican leadership to try to block it.
The amendment to the annual Defense Department spending bill, written by Representatives Justin Amash, a libertarian Republican from Western Michigan, and John Conyers Jr., a veteran liberal Democrat from Detroit, turned Democrat against Democrat and Republican against Republican.
It would have limited N.S.A. phone surveillance to specific targets of law enforcement investigations, not broad dragnets. It was only one of a series of proposals including restricting funds for Syrian rebels and adding Congressional oversight to foreign aid to Egypt intended to check President Obamas foreign and intelligence policies.
http://www.nytimes.com/2013/07/25/us/politics/house-defeats-effort-to-rein-in-nsa-data-gathering.html?smid=tw-share&_r=1&
RobertEarl
(13,685 posts)Not only is the left concerned, but the right is too.
Heck, just about everyone is perturbed by the idea of privacy being pirated.
Obama had best see the light and get with the people before he is thought of as being a privacy pirate.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)Pretzel_Warrior
(8,361 posts)struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)by tiny margins, often reflects a lot of behind-the-scenes talk, where people in safe districts vote no, and people who need to shore-up voter support vote yes, once they're sure the vote will fail
joshcryer
(62,276 posts)The vote tally was back and forth the whole time but it was passing by huge margins initially.
It was a faux tie. Lots of people gained some political capital on that vote just because it's a vote they can add to their list of whatever they want their constituents to believe.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)delrem
(9,688 posts)it isn't "grandstanding".
It's identifying himself with his base.
struggle4progress
(118,350 posts)rather than grandstanding
frylock
(34,825 posts)limpyhobbler
(8,244 posts)YoungDemCA
(5,714 posts)"The choice between Obama and the Republicans is clear!"
Tx4obama
(36,974 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)Which the NSA already claims it doesn't do.
Tierra_y_Libertad
(50,414 posts)joshcryer
(62,276 posts)There's no alliance here, the writing was on the wall and it was only so close because so many changed their votes after it became clear it wouldn't pass.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_House_Permanent_Select_Committee_on_Intelligence
Compare here: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2013/roll412.xml
Only Ed Pastor from AZ and Adam Schiff from CA voted for it.
woo me with science
(32,139 posts)all mixed up.
railsback
(1,881 posts)It was NEVER going to pass.
C'mon.