Did Your Senator Vote for CISA?

[SecularMotion]

The Senate overwhelmingly passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act by a margin of 74-21. CISA is a controversial cybersecurity bill that would allow companies to pass personal data to the federal government, and critics have called it a disaster, claiming that it would greatly increase National Security Administration surveillance.

While CISA passed easily, not everyone who voted for the bill saw it as ideal legislation. Earlier in the day, an amendment that would have greatly improved its privacy protections failed by a margin of just two votes, 47-49. Rather than kill the unamended legislation outright, however, dozens of lawmakers decided to vote for it anyway.

The most outspoken group opposing the bill, Fight For the Future, noted in a scathing statement that the vote would be one we one day look back at as being formative for the internet.

"This vote will go down in history as the moment that lawmakers decided not only what sort of Internet our children and our children’s children will have, but what sort of world they will live in," the group wrote in an emailed statement. "Every Senator who voted for CISA has voted for a world without freedom of expression, a world without true democracy, a world without basic human rights."

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[atreides1]

1. Yes

Both of them did...Kaine and Warner of Virginia...f**k the both of them!!!

[Octafish]

2. Michigan Democrats STABENOW and PETERS for SHAME!

"This vote will go down in history as the moment that lawmakers decided not only what sort of Internet our children and our children’s children will have, but what sort of world they will live in," the group wrote in an emailed statement. "Every Senator who voted for CISA has voted for a world without freedom of expression, a world without true democracy, a world without basic human rights."

Oh well. If you want to "get along" you got to "go along." Ask former Sen. Phil Gramm, now Vice Chairman of UBS, and his Buy Partisan friends there.

[djean111]

3. Of course! My senator, Nelson (DINO, FL) voted for it.

I am never voting for him or Patrick Murphy (or Debbie Wasserman-DINO or Gwen Graham, if the chance presents itself) ever again. The entire list of New Democrat Coalition members is nothing but a Third Way-advised DINO nest.

[fredamae]

4. OR-Wyden/Merkley Both NAY n/t