Obama extends Patriot Act.

[haaaylee]

No Surprise here:
http://apnews.myway.com/article/20100228/D9E4T02G0.html


"Obama's signature comes after the House voted 315 to 97 Thursday to extend the measure."

315 people to kick the fuck out.




This was something i saw on my Facebook though, posted by someone who used to tease me about being a Ron Paul supporter. I think it is nice to see even Obama people pissed:


Ivan Torres Torres Why is oBAMa extending patriot act provisions?! Patriot act is un-american! Where is the fucking change I voted for, you fuck?! Unacceptable!!!
6 hours ago via Facebook for Android · Comment · Like

Weiss Eubanks likes this.

Weiss Eubanks No Shit!! WTF! I want the black panther to come and straighten whitey up!
2 hours ago

Mason Evans because both sides are working for the same people, and are only presented as being different to make you think you have some choice about how your country is run. Obama is no less of a lapdog than W, Clinton or Bush senior.....surprise, kiddies, that change you could believe in is really just the same old song and dance.....
about an hour ago

Tomas Garza Dude! Unacceptable for sure. Deceitful...
17 minutes ago

Sarah Smile You're surprised?
2 seconds ago ·

[DapperDan]

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[CoreyBowen999]

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^^

[BrianHandeland]

Can somone post a list of the 315 who voted for it?

[malkusm]

Can somone post a list of the 315 who voted for it?

H.R. 3961

Agreed to in House 243-183

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll909.xml

Passed Senate by a "voice vote."

Revised bill passed the House (with the Senate amendments) 315-97

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

[malkusm]

Wait - it looks like this bill was originally about Medicare/Social Security....

There are 6 versions of Bill Number H.R.3961 for the 111th Congress
1 . Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act of 2009 (Introduced in House)[H.R.3961.IH][PDF]
2 . To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality... (Engrossed as Agreed to or Passed by House)[H.R.3961.EH][PDF]
3 . To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality... (Received in Senate from House)[H.R.3961.RDS][PDF]
4 . To amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for physicians and to reinstitute and update the Pay-As-You-Go requirement of budget neutrality... (Placed on Calendar in Senate)[H.R.3961.PCS][PDF]
5 . Resolved, That the bill from the House of Representatives (H.R. 3961) entitled `An Act to amend title XVIII of the Social Security Act to reform the Medicare SGR payment system for... (Engrossed Amendment as Agreed to by Senate)[H.R.3961.EAS][PDF]
6 . To extend expiring provisions of the USA PATRIOT Improvement and Reauthorization Act of 2005 and Intelligence Reform and Terrorism Prevention Act of 2004 until February 28, 2011. (Enrolled as Agreed to or Passed by Both House and Senate)[H.R.3961.ENR][PDF]

[amy31416]

I don't know how reliable this is, but here's a list:

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/25/patriot-act-without-reforms-passes-house-roll-call-included/

I will be both calling my Congresswoman, and supporting anyone who runs against her.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Hey... Look at the New Boss, Same as the old Boss!

ROLL CALL VOTE: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

[amy31416]

Hey... Look at the New Boss, Same as the old Boss!

ROLL CALL VOTE: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

Why is it titled " Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act?"

[akforme]

I don't know how reliable this is, but here's a list:

http://irregulartimes.com/index.php/archives/2010/02/25/patriot-act-without-reforms-passes-house-roll-call-included/

I will be both calling my Congresswoman, and supporting anyone who runs against her.

That's my problem. I really don't like my 80% neocon rep. He votes for the war, and war spending but votes against the bailout, and against the patriot act. His opponent for the last 2 races was against the war, but for the patriot act, and his last one was for the bailout too.

Who do I vote for? So far I haven't voted for our rep in a decade. I leave it blank.

[tekkierich]

That's my problem. I really don't like my 80% neocon rep. He votes for the war, and war spending but votes against the bailout, and against the patriot act. His opponent for the last 2 races was against the war, but for the patriot act, and his last one was for the bailout too.

Who do I vote for? So far I haven't voted for our rep in a decade. I leave it blank.

run against him

[Matthew Zak]

We need to kick this fucker out of office, now.

[HOLLYWOOD]

Why is it titled " Medicare Physician Payment Reform Act?"

EXACTLY! That's how they do it:

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 online 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.

http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

[Juan McCain]

Hey... Look at the New Boss, Same as the old Boss!

ROLL CALL VOTE: http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2010/roll067.xml

The roll call nays are a good list of core Congressman on our side . . .
although maybe muddled by the other parts of this bill . . . the extension of the Patriot Act was reason enough for a nay.

Iowa congressional delegation was split 3-2 on this with King (not surprising, from western Iowa) and the central Iowa delegation for the Patriot Act extension,
but with both Eastern Iowa Congressman nays -

These two represent the citizens of Iowa City (University of Iowa), Jefferson County (Ron Paul country),
Dubuque, Waterloo/Cedar Falls (Univ. Northern Iowa), Cedar Rapids, Independence, etc.
- AGAINST any bill that includes the extension of the Patriot Act . . .
because the citizens of Eastern Iowa recognize and are vocal about the Patriot Act as an abridgment of liberty.

[Stary Hickory]

The patriot act is about the most unAmerican thing I have ever seen. Really really getting tired of this garbage. We get a so called super lib in there and he can't veto this? Obama brings the worst of it all to the table....socialism, fascism, demagoguery, and then he plays lip service to ending wars and can't be bothered to veto this blatanty unconstituional legislation. A big fat giant zero.

To top it all off he is now going to start screwing with the internet. Why do we tolerate this?