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Key Votes
S Amdt 3907 - Striking Telecommunications Companies' Civil Immunity for Surveillance - Key Vote
National Key Votes
Gordon Smith voted Nay (Amendment Vote) on this Amendment.
Read statements Gordon Smith made in this general time period.
Stages
Family
- S 2248 - FISA Amendments Act of 2007
- S Amdt 3907 - Striking Telecommunications Companies' Civil Immunity for Surveillance
- S Amdt 3910 - FISA as Exclusive Means for Conducting Electronic Surveillance
Issues
Note
NOTE: THIS IS AN AMENDMENT TO A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT. A SUBSTITUTE AMENDMENT REPLACES THE ENTIRE TEXT OF A PIECE OF LEGISLATION WITH A NEW TEXT.
Stage Details
Amendment - Amendment Rejected (Senate) (31-67) - Feb. 12, 2008(Key vote)
Title: Striking Telecommunications Companies' Civil Immunity for Surveillance
Vote Result
Yea Votes
Nay Votes
Vote to adopt an amendment that strikes Title II from the bill, in effect striking the civil immunity provisions for telecommunications providers and other electronic communications providers that have provided electronic surveillance.
NOTE: THIS LEGISLATION NEEDED A THREE-FIFTHS MAJORITY VOTE TO PASS.
Amendment - Introduced (Senate) - Feb. 5, 2008
Title: Striking Telecommunications Companies' Civil Immunity for Surveillance
Sponsors
- Christopher J. 'Chris' Dodd (CT - D) (Out Of Office)
Co-sponsors
- Joseph Robinette 'Joe' Biden Jr. (DE - D) (Out Of Office)
- Barbara Boxer (CA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Hillary Rodham Clinton (NY - D) (Out Of Office)
- Russell D. 'Russ' Feingold (WI - D) (Out Of Office)
- Thomas 'Tom' Harkin (IA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Edward M. 'Ted' Kennedy Sr. (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- John Forbes Kerry (MA - D) (Out Of Office)
- Patrick J. Leahy (VT - D)
- Barack Hussein Obama II (IL - D) (Out Of Office)
- Bernard 'Bernie' Sanders (VT - I)
- Ron Wyden (OR - D)
