While America was watching Boston this week, a Satan sandwich was being passed in Washington. The House passed CISPA, which shreds the 4th Amendment and takes away your right to online privacy. This is a big deal. Popoular outrage killed SOPA last year, so Congress is trying again. If you don't know what CISPA is, there's a good FAQ here. To sum it up:
CISPA, by contrast [to SOPA], would allow Americans' personal information to be vacuumed up by government agencies for cybersecurity and law enforcement purposes, as long as Internet and telecommunications companies agreed. In that respect, at least, its impact is broader.
Over 90 Democrats voted for this!
14 Members of the Progressive Caucus voted for this!
The progressive Caucus. The Democrats that we're supposed to be able to count on to, you know, act like Democrats.
11 Democrats co-sponsored this bill! Wow!
The overt cluelessness displayed here just boggles the mind. Co-sponsor Rep. Ruppersberger from Maryland bragged about CISPA on his website as "an important step forward"... I guess it's a step forward for collecting corporate donations.
I'm especially disappointed in some of these congressmen/women in particular. Emmanuel Cleaver voted for this "sugar coated Satan sandwich". Tammy Duckworth, after all the support we gave her. Steny Hoyer and James Clyburn, the #2 and #3 Dems in the House. Marcy Kaptur in my own state of Ohio. After this I hope Kucinich primaries her in 2014.
I would like to thank my own representative Tim Ryan for voting against this. He's one of the more underrated Democrats in the House. We're lucky to have him.
There's already a rec-listed diary about the response from Anonymous and social media on the Internet; you should check it out if you haven't already. But I thought we needed a comprehensive list of who voted for CISPA and sold us out for some campaign donations from Hollywood.
Below I listed Dems who voted for CISPA by state, along with Democratic co-sponsors and members of the "Progressive" Caucus. In case you are represented by a Republican, Republicans who voted for this are listed at the bottom, not sorted by state. I'm not quite as mad about them. We already know Republicans represent corporate interests. But the Democrats are supposed to fight for the rest of us. This time the listed Democrats and Progressives not only failed in doing that, they didn't even try.
If you don't like how your rep. voted, call or write him/her! Let them know we do not support this. And make sure your senator knows how you feel before they vote on this.
Look below the orange squiggly for the list.
Dems who voted for CISPA
# Denotes Democratic co-sponsors of CISPA
@ Denotes members of the "Progressive" Caucus who voted for CISPA.
Alabama
Sewell
Arizona
Barber (AZ)
Kirkpatrick (AZ)
Pastor (AZ) @
Sinema (AZ)#
California
Bera (CA)
Brownley (CA)
Cárdenas (CA)
Costa (CA)
Garamendi (CA)
Peters (CA)#
Ruiz (CA)
Sanchez, Loretta (CA)
Swalwell (CA)
Thompson (CA)
Vargas (CA)#
Connecticut
Himes (CT)
Colorado
Perlmutter (CO)
Delaware
Carney (DE)
Florida
Brown (FL)@
Castor (FL)
Deutch (FL)
Frankel (FL)
Hastings (FL)#
Garcia (FL)
Murphy (FL)
Georgia
Barrow (GA)
Bishop (GA)
Scott, David (GA)
Hawaii
Hanabusa (HI)
Illinois
Bustos (IL)
Duckworth (IL)
Enyart (IL)#
Foster (IL)
Gutierrez (IL)#@
Kelly (IL)
Lipinski (IL)#
Quigley (IL)
Schneider (IL)
Louisiana
Richmond (LA)
Maryland
Hoyer (MD)
Ruppersberger (MD)#
Michigan
Dingell (MI)
Missouri
Clay (MO)@
Cleaver (MO)@
Minnesota
Peterson (MN)
Mississippi
Thompson (MS)@
Nevada
Horsford (NV)
New Hampshire
Kuster (NH)@
New Jersey
Payne (NJ)
Sires (NJ)
New Mexico
Lujan Grisham (NM)
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)@
New York
Bishop (NY)
Clarke (NY)@
Higgins (NY)
Israel (NY)
Jeffries(NY)
Maffei (NY)
Maloney, Sean (NY)@
McCarthy (NY)
Meeks (NY)
Meng (NY)
Owens (NY)
Rangel(NY)@
North Carolina
Butterfield (NC)
McIntyre (NC)
Ohio
Beatty (OH)
Fudge (OH)@
Kaptur (OH)@
Oregon
Schrader (OR)
Pennsylvania
Schwartz (PA)
Rhode Island
Langevin (RI)
South Carolina
Clyburn (SC)
Tennessee
Cooper (TN)
Texas
Cuellar (TX)#
Gallego (TX)
Green, Al (TX)
Green, Gene (TX)
Johnson, E. B.(TX)@
Veasey (TX)
Vela (TX)
Virginia
Connolly (VA)
Moran (VA)
Utah
Matheson (UT)
Washington
Heck (WA)
Kilmer (WA)#
Larsen (WA)
Smith (WA)
West Virgina
Rahall (WV)
Wisconsin
Kind (WI)
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Democrats who co-sponsored CISPA
Sinema (AZ)#
Peters (CA)#
Vargas (CA)#
Hastings (FL)#
Enyart (IL)#
Gutierrez (IL)#@
Lipinski (IL)#
Ruppersberger (MD)#
Cuellar (TX)#
Heck (WA)#
Kilmer (WA)#
.
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Members of the Progressive Caucus who voted for CISPA
Pastor (AZ) @
Brown (FL)@
Gutierrez (IL)#@
Clay (MO)@
Cleaver (MO)@
Thompson (MS)@
Kuster (NH)@
Luján, Ben Ray (NM)@
Clarke (NY)@
Maloney, Sean (NY)@
Rangel(NY)@
Fudge (OH)@
Kaptur (OH)@
Johnson, E. B.(TX)@
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Republicans who voted for CISPA
Aderholt
Alexander
Amodei
Bachus
Barletta
Barr
Barton
Benishek
Bilirakis
Black
Bonner
Boustany
Brady (TX)
Brooks (AL)
Brooks (IN)
Buchanan
Bucshon
Burgess
Calvert
Camp
Campbell
Cantor
Capito
Carter
Cassidy
Chabot
Chaffetz
Coble
Coffman
Cole
Collins (GA)
Collins (NY)
Conaway
Cook
Cotton
Cramer
Crawford
Crenshaw
Culberson
Daines
Denham
Dent
DesJarlais
Diaz-Balart
Duffy
Duncan (TN)
Ellmers
Farenthold
Fincher
Fitzpatrick
Fleischmann
Flores
Forbes
Fortenberry
Foxx
Franks (AZ)
Frelinghuysen
Gardner
Gerlach
Gibbs
Gingrey (GA)
Goodlatte
Gowdy
Granger
Graves (GA)
Graves (MO)
Griffin (AR)
Griffith (VA)
Grimm
Guthrie
Hanna
Harper
Harris
Hartzler
Hastings (WA)
Heck (NV)
Hensarling
Hudson
Huizenga (MI)
Hultgren
Hunter
Hurt
Issa
Jenkins
Johnson (OH)
Johnson, Sam
Jordan
Joyce
Kelly (PA)
King (IA)
King (NY)
Kinzinger (IL)
Kline
LaMalfa
Lamborn
Lance
Lankford
Latham
Latta
LoBiondo
Long
Lucas
Luetkemeyer
Lummis
Marino
McCarthy (CA)
McCaul
McHenry
McKeon
McKinley
McMorris Rodgers
Meehan
Messer
Mica
Miller (FL)
Miller (MI)
Mullin
Mulvaney
Murphy (PA)
Neugebauer
Noem
Nunes
Nunnelee
Olson
Palazzo
Paulsen
Pearce
Perry
Petri
Pittenger
Pitts
Poe (TX)
Pompeo
Price (GA)
Radel
Reed
Reichert
Renacci
Ribble
Rice (SC)
Roby
Roe (TN)
Rogers (AL)
Rogers (KY)
Rogers (MI)
Rokita
Rooney
Ros-Lehtinen
Roskam
Ross
Rothfus
Royce
Runyan
Ryan (WI)
Salmon
Scalise
Schock
Schweikert
Scott, Austin
Sessions
Shuster
Simpson
Smith (NE)
Smith (NJ)
Smith (TX)
Southerland
Stewart
Stivers
Stutzman
Terry
Thompson (PA)
Thornberry
Tiberi
Tipton
Titus
Turner
Upton
Valadao
Wagner
Walberg
Walden
Walorski
Weber (TX)
Webster (FL)
Wenstrup
Westmoreland
Whitfield
Williams
Wilson (SC)
Wittman
Wolf
Womack
Woodall
Yoder
Young (AK)
Young (FL)
Young (IN)
See your congresscritter up there? Let them know how you feel about their vote!