On Thursday night, defenders of the Constitution and civil liberties won a major victory, when the Massie-Lofgren amendment to curb the NSA's abuse of authority overwhelmingly passed the U.S. House by a vote of 293-123, with 1 member voting "present," and 14 not voting.
You can see how your representative voted below.
As previously stated on our blog, the Massie-Lofgren amendment reins in the NSA by denying funds for so-called “backdoor surveillance” and warrantless searches of Americans electronic communications under Section 702 of the FISA Amendments Act.
The battle turns to the Senate, where we must fight to make sure the "upper chamber" passes a Defense appropriations bill with the amendment language included.
Thursday's victory proves just how effective grassroots pressure can be and how much ground we are gaining. While many members would certainly have been outraged by the disclosures concerning the NSA's activities and pushed for reform, the controversy has only resulted in concrete action because of liberty-minded Americans refusing to back down. Your voice backs up the efforts of pro-change representatives on the inside and helps encourage more members to support the resulting legislation - until the tidal wave of pressure leads to massive wins like this one.
But total victory comes one step at a time, and next up is the Senate. So after you check the vote results below, please contact your senators and urge them to support the pro-Fourth Amendment language passed by the House on Thursday night as part of the Defense appropriations bill.
Results via the U.S. House Clerk's website.
H R 4870 RECORDED VOTE 19-Jun-2014 10:47 PM
AUTHOR(S): Massie of Kentucky Amendment
QUESTION: On Agreeing to the Amendment
| AYES | NOES | PRES | NV | |
| REPUBLICAN | 135 | 94 | 3 | |
| DEMOCRATIC | 158 | 29 | 1 | 11 |
| INDEPENDENT | ||||
| TOTALS | 293 | 123 | 1 | 14 |
| Amash Amodei Barton Bass Becerra Bentivolio Bera (CA) Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Black Blackburn Blumenauer Bonamici Brady (PA) Braley (IA) Bridenstine Brooks (AL) Broun (GA) Brown (FL) Buchanan Bucshon Burgess Butterfield Byrne Campbell Capito Capps Capuano Cárdenas Carney Carson (IN) Cartwright Cassidy Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Chabot Chaffetz Chu Cicilline Clark (MA) Clarke (NY) Clay Cleaver Clyburn Coffman Cohen Collins (GA) Connolly Conyers Cook Courtney Cramer Crowley Cuellar Culberson Cummings Daines Davis (CA) Davis, Danny DeFazio DeGette DeLauro DelBene DeSantis DesJarlais Deutch Dingell Doggett Doyle Duffy Duncan (SC) Duncan (TN) Edwards Ellison Engel Enyart Eshoo Esty Farenthold Farr Fattah Fincher Fitzpatrick Fleischmann Fleming Flores Fortenberry Foster Foxx Gabbard Garamendi Garcia Gardner Garrett Gibbs Gibson Gohmert |
Gosar Gowdy Graves (GA) Grayson Green, Al Green, Gene Griffin (AR) Griffith (VA) Grijalva Guthrie Gutiérrez Hahn Hall Hanabusa Hanna Harper Harris Hastings (FL) Heck (WA) Hensarling Herrera Beutler Higgins Holt Honda Horsford Hudson Huelskamp Huffman Huizenga (MI) Hultgren Hunter Hurt Issa Jackson Lee Jeffries Jenkins Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Jones Jordan Kaptur Keating Kelly (IL) Kildee Kilmer Kind King (IA) Kingston Kuster Labrador LaMalfa Lamborn Lance Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) Latta Lee (CA) Lewis Loebsack Lofgren Lowenthal Lowey Luetkemeyer Luján, Ben Ray (NM) Lummis Lynch Maffei Maloney, Carolyn Maloney, Sean Marchant Massie Matsui McAllister McClintock McCollum McDermott McGovern McHenry McIntyre McKinley McMorris Rodgers McNerney Meadows Meeks Meng Mica Michaud Miller (MI) Miller, George Moore Moran Mullin Nadler Napolitano Neal Negrete McLeod Neugebauer |
Noem Nolan Nugent O'Rourke Olson Owens Palazzo Pallone Pascrell Pastor (AZ) Paulsen Payne Pelosi Perlmutter Perry Peters (MI) Petri Pingree (ME) Pocan Poe (TX) Posey Price (GA) Price (NC) Quigley Rahall Reed Ribble Rice (SC) Roe (TN) Rohrabacher Rokita Rooney Ross Rothfus Roybal-Allard Ruiz Runyan Ryan (WI) Salmon Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanford Sarbanes Scalise Schakowsky Schneider Schock Schrader Schwartz Schweikert Scott (VA) Scott, Austin Scott, David Sensenbrenner Serrano Sessions Shea-Porter Sherman Shimkus Shuster Sires Slaughter Smith (MO) Smith (NE) Smith (NJ) Smith (WA) Southerland Speier Stewart Stockman Stutzman Swalwell (CA) Takano Terry Tierney Tipton Titus Tonko Tsongas Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Vela Velázquez Wagner Walorski Waters Waxman Weber (TX) Welch Wenstrup Williams Wilson (FL) Woodall Yarmuth Yoder Yoho |
| Aderholt Bachmann Bachus Barber Barletta Barr Barrow (GA) Beatty Benishek Bilirakis Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (IN) Brownley (CA) Bustos Calvert Camp Cantor Carter Coble Cole Collins (NY) Conaway Cooper Costa Cotton Crawford Crenshaw Davis, Rodney Delaney Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Duckworth Ellmers Forbes Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Gerlach |
Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Grimm Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Himes Hinojosa Holding Hoyer Israel Johnson (OH) Jolly Joyce Kelly (PA) Kennedy King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kline Langevin Latham Levin LoBiondo Long Lucas Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McKeon Meehan Messer Miller (FL) Miller, Gary Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Nunes Pearce Peters (CA) |
Peterson Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Reichert Renacci Rigell Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ruppersberger Schiff Sewell (AL) Simpson Sinema Smith (TX) Stivers Thompson (CA) Thompson (PA) Thornberry Tiberi Turner Upton Valadao Visclosky Walberg Walden Wasserman Schultz Webster (FL) Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (SC) Wittman Wolf Womack Young (AK) Young (IN) |
| Lipinski |
---- NOT VOTING 14 ---
| Fudge Kirkpatrick Lankford Lujan Grisham (NM) McCarthy (NY) |
Mulvaney Nunnelee Polis Rangel Richmond |
Rush Ryan (OH) Thompson (MS) Walz |
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