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

[C. G. Estabrook]

The redoubtable emptywheel tweets, "If Michelle Bachmann is such a great Tea 
Partier, then why didn't she vote w/real TP folks against Big Brother/PATRIOT?" 
http://bit.ly/gExn9Z


On 2/8/11 8:24 PM, C. G. Estabrook wrote:
> [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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