Did J. Amash vote for CISPA? [Mod note: No]
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No he didn't. http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll192.xml#N
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Thank you for the confirmation.
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No he didn't, but Chaffetz did. So wrong. 
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And some people here said we should support Jeff Flake lololololololol
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Amash is one of the few (5 out of 535) good guys.
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Amash is one of the few (5 out of 535) good guys.
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No he didn't, but Chaffetz did. So wrong.
Then he's sealed his own fate.
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This was my source http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2012/roll183.xml Looks like it was voted on earlier in the day, but I may be wrong..
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That vote was a procedural one. Amash always votes with his party on procedural issues. Not sure why.
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That one, which basically all the republicans voted for, including Amash, may have been a procedural vote ("providing for consideration of the bill") allowing it to come to the floor and even be considered, and the other vote, in which Amash voted no, was the vote on actually passing the bill.
Just an idea.
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No shit. If the 28 Republicans who voted against the bill also voted against the procedural motion, it would have thrown sand in the gears, shot down the motion, and probably made headlines of some sort.
Walter Jones was the only one who saw fit to vote against both the procedural motion and the actual bill itself.
But yeah, Amash got to make his stand by adding a worthless amendment that restricts searches to PATRIOT Act parameters (the executive branch takes the PATRIOT Act to mean it can look at anything for any reason, so this amendment literally does nothing) and symbolically vote against sure passage of the bill.
4 liburty!!!!11!
Screw politics, waste of time, energy, and intellectual focus.
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he absolutely did not. He sponsored an amendment to limit it slightly, which passed, then he voted against the bill.
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did he do that again? He did the same thing with the Patriot Act. It is the reason I had questions about him. Hm.
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He limited it to the same restrictions placed on the PATRIOT Act, and we all know how much restriction the executive branch places on itself concerning search and seizure - zero. And it passed 415-0, that alone should tell everyone it's entirely toothless.
It was a complete waste of time to offer such an amendment, and it really makes me wonder what the hell Amash is doing. If he is that gullible, he's useless, and if he knows better, it was nothing but posturing. Either way, I'm not going to give him a high five for it.
Don't mean to rant at you, I'm just kind of venting in general.
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When we do crooked procedure in the NC House, I always vote against it. It's not that hard. Makes the leadership hate you, but oh well.
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