[Peace-discuss] Johnson & teapartiers oppose Obama on Patriot Act

[C. G. Estabrook]

[Good for them. --CGE]

Posted at 8:00 PM ET, 02/ 8/2011
GOP freshmen help derail Patriot Act extension
By Scott Butterworth

Nine House Republican freshmen and three inaugural members of the Tea Party 
Caucus voted against a proposed extension of three Patriot Act provisions 
Tuesday night, helping block the measure from passage under fast-track rules.

The House clearly backed the measure, voting 277 to 148 to extend the 
provisions, and most Republicans stuck by their leadership and supported the 
extension. But enough defected, joined by most Democrats, to keep the measure 
from receiving the two-thirds majority required for passage under the fast-track 
procedure.

The House is likely to bring the extensions back up before the end of the month 
under regular procedures, when a simple majority would suffice to send it to the 
Senate.

Attention immediately swung to whether House members sympathetic to the tea 
party had decided the matter, especially after Rep. Dennis J. Kucinich (D-Ohio) 
said Monday that the vote would be "the tea party's first test."

The Republicans who voted no Tuesday night included Roscoe G. Bartlett (Md.), 
Paul Broun (Ga.) and Walter B. Jones (N.C.), all of whom were original members 
of the House Tea Party Caucus when it was founded last summer.

And nine GOP freshmen also voted no: Justin Amash (Mich.), Michael G. 
Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Christopher P. Gibson (N.Y.), Tom Graves (Ga.), Randy 
Hultgren (Ill.), Raul R. Labrador (Idaho), Robert Schilling (Ill.), David 
Schweikert (Ariz.) and Rob Woodall (Ga.).

The full list of House Republicans who voted no:

Justin Amash (Mich.), Roscoe G. Bartlett (Md.), Rob Bishop (Utah), Paul Broun 
(Ga.), John Campbell (Calif.), John J. Duncan Jr. (Tenn.), Michael G. 
Fitzpatrick (Pa.), Christopher P. Gibson (N.Y.), Tom Graves (Ga.) Dean Heller 
(Nev.), Randy Hultgren (Ill.), _*Timothy V. Johnson (Ill.)*_, Walter B. Jones 
(N.C.), Jack Kingston (Ga.), Raul R. Labrador (Idaho), Connie Mack (Fla.), Kenny 
Marchant (Tex.), Tom McClintock (Calif.), Ron Paul (Tex.), Denny Rehberg 
(Mont.), Phil Roe (Tenn.), Dana Rohrabacher (Calif.), Robert Schilling (Ill.), 
David Schweikert (Ariz.), Rob Woodall (Ga.), Don Young (Alaska).

http://voices.washingtonpost.com/44/2011/02/gop-freshmen-help-derail-patri.html
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