Remember this vote next time one of these 10 Democrats or Sanders tells you that Trump is the most dangerous president in history. They just facilitated outrageous surveillance powers for William Barr and the FBI.
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Great job to the 10 Democrats who voted *against* the Wyden-Daines amendment that would have prohibited FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history. Special shout out to Bernie Sanders who didn’t show up to vote. It was defeated by *one* vote.
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The 10 Democrats who joined GOP in defeating amendment to stop FBI warrantless surveillance of web browser history: Carper, Casey, Feinstein, Hassan, Jones, Kaine, Manchin, Shaheen, Warner and Whitehorse. Joined 2 Republicans & a Democrat in not showing up to vote: Bernie Sanders
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It’s fascinating to watch centrist Dems seize on Sanders not voting on this amendment (which, as I said, is bad) to make sweeping declarations about how awful he is while saying nothing about the Democrats who always support these dangerous surveillance powers.
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Pence surely would’ve voted it down if it were tied. Not sure why you wanted Bernie to waste his time
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It wasn’t a tie. It fell one vote short of the 60 it needed to PASS. Do some reading on voting for amendments. Has zero to do with Pence or tie-breakers. Sanders didn’t show up and it made a huge difference.
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Yes. They needed 60.
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That's disappointing. Even more interesting that a supposed "centrist" democrat like Ron Wyden took a more progressive position on this than Bernie Sanders.
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Wyden has always been a champion of this issue for a very long time. He’s one of the absolute best on surveillance issues and works on it nonstop.
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*Whitehouse* not Whitehorse
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I’m aware. It was autocorrected
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