All of the FISA amendments are failing.
Feingold/Webb (Sequestration) S.Amdt. 3979 rejected.
Dodd/Feingold (Stripping Retroactive Immunity) S.Admt. 3907 rejected.
Feinstein (FISA is exclusive means) S. Admt. 3910 rejected.
They are voting now on the Specter/Whitehouse ‘substitution’ amendment that would make the federal government the defendant in any civil suits against the telcos. This would be better than immunity. I expect it to fail, too.
On Dodd’s amendment, the following Democrats sold us out:
Bayh (D-IN), Carper (D-DE), Conrad (D-ND), Feinstein (D-CA), Inouye (D-HI), Johnson (D-SD), Kohl (D-WI), Landrieu (D-LA), Lieberman (ID-CT), Lincoln (D-AR), McCaskill (D-MO), Mikulski (D-MD), Nelson (D-FL), Nelson (D-NE), Pryor (D-AR), Rockefeller (D-WV), Salazar (D-CO)
Stabenow (D-MI), Webb (D-VA)
Obama did show up to vote…Clinton did not.
Update [2008-2-12 12:34:53 by BooMan]: Cloture has been invoked 69-29.
