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Vote Alert: Stop Unconstitutional Abuse of Americans' Privacy

Vote Alert: Stop Unconstitutional Abuse of Americans' Privacy

This vote was on the USA Rights Act, an amendment designed to safeguard against the warantless surveillance of Americans.

Rep. Justin Amash, R-Mich., sponsored the amendment aimed at curtailing the National Security Agency's unconstitutional surveillance and providing more robust protections for American citizens’ Fourth Amendment rights. A bipartisan group of privacy advocates supported the measure to allow the government to continue strategic surveillance operations on foreign targets on foreign soil while strictly limiting "incidental" data collection conducted on Americans without a warrant.

The amendment was rejected just before the House voted to extend Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) for six more years.

Under Section 702, the National Security Agency has sweeping authority to collect incidental data on Americans while spying on foreign targets. The collected information, including emails and text messages, is stored and can be queried by law enforcement without a warrant or even probable cause.

The USA Rights Act would have required a warrant for non-emergency access to Section 702 data on Americans.

The House voted on and rejected this amendment on January 11, 2018 in a roll call vote of 233 to 183.

To see how your elected officials stack up or other votes that compose the Liberty Score, view our full scorecard here.

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Conservative position: YES


 

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Minority party (Democrats) in italics

YEAs — 183

Amash

Barragán

Barton

Bass

Beatty

Beyer

Biggs

Blum

Blumenauer

Bonamici

Boyle, Brendan F.

Brady (PA)

Brat

Brooks (AL)

Budd

Burgess

Butterfield

Capuano

Carson (IN)

Chu, Judy

Cicilline

Clark (MA)

Clarke (NY)

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Cohen

Comer

Connolly

Correa

Courtney

Crist

Crowley

Davidson

Davis (CA)

Davis, Danny

Davis, Rodney

DeFazio

DeGette

DeLauro

DelBene

DesJarlais

Deutch

Dingell

Doggett

Doyle, Michael F.

Duncan (SC)

Duncan (TN)

Ellison

Emmer

Engel

Eshoo

Espaillat

Evans

Farenthold

Foster

Fudge

Gabbard

Gallego

Garamendi

Garrett

Gianforte

Gohmert

Gomez

Gonzalez (TX)

Gosar

Graves (LA)

Green, Al

Green, Gene

Griffith

Grijalva

Gutiérrez

Harris

Hastings

Herrera Beutler

Hice, Jody B.

Issa

Jackson Lee

Jayapal

Jeffries

Johnson (GA)

Johnson (LA)

Johnson, E. B.

Jones

Jordan

Keating

Kelly (IL)

Kelly (MS)

Kennedy

Khanna

Kihuen

Kildee

Krishnamoorthi

Labrador

Lamborn

Larsen (WA)

Larson (CT)

Lawrence

Lee

Levin

Lewis (GA)

Lewis (MN)

Lieu, Ted

Lofgren

Loudermilk

Lowenthal

Lujan Grisham, M.

Luján, Ben Ray

Lynch

Maloney, Carolyn B.

Massie

Mast

Matsui

McClintock

McCollum

McGovern

McMorris Rodgers

Meadows

Meeks

Meng

Mooney (WV)

Moore

Moulton

Nadler

Napolitano

Neal

Norman

O'Rourke

Pallone

Payne

Pearce

Perlmutter

Perry

Pingree

Pocan

Poe (TX)

Polis

Posey

Price (NC)

Raskin

Richmond

Rohrabacher

Rokita

Roybal-Allard

Ryan (OH)

Sánchez

Sanford

Sarbanes

Schakowsky

Schrader

Schweikert

Scott (VA)

Scott, David

Sensenbrenner

Serrano

Shea-Porter

Sherman

Slaughter

Smith (WA)

Soto

Speier

Takano

Thompson (MS)

Titus

Tonko

Tsongas

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Velázquez

Walz

Waters, Maxine

Watson Coleman

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Welch

Wittman

Woodall

Yarmuth

Yoder

Yoho

Young (AK)

Zeldin

NAYs — 233

Abraham

Aderholt

Aguilar

Allen

Amodei

Arrington

Bacon

Banks (IN)

Barletta

Barr

Bera

Bergman

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (MI)

Bishop (UT)

Black

Blackburn

Blunt Rochester

Bost

Brady (TX)

Bridenstine

Brooks (IN)

Brown (MD)

Brownley (CA)

Buchanan

Buck

Bucshon

Bustos

Byrne

Calvert

Carter (GA)

Carter (TX)

Cartwright

Castor (FL)

Castro (TX)

Chabot

Cheney

Coffman

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Comstock

Conaway

Cook

Cooper

Costa

Costello (PA)

Cramer

Crawford

Cuellar

Culberson

Curbelo (FL)

Curtis

Delaney

Demings

Denham

Dent

DeSantis

Diaz-Balart

Donovan

Duffy

Dunn

Estes (KS)

Esty (CT)

Faso

Ferguson

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Flores

Fortenberry

Foxx

Frankel (FL)

Frelinghuysen

Gaetz

Gallagher

Gibbs

Goodlatte

Gottheimer

Gowdy

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (MO)

Grothman

Guthrie

Handel

Harper

Hartzler

Heck

Hensarling

Higgins (LA)

Higgins (NY)

Hill

Himes

Holding

Hollingsworth

Hoyer

Hudson

Huizenga

Hultgren

Hunter

Hurd

Jenkins (KS)

Jenkins (WV)

Johnson (OH)

Johnson, Sam

Joyce (OH)

Kaptur

Katko

Kelly (PA)

Kilmer

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger

Knight

Kuster (NH)

Kustoff (TN)

LaHood

LaMalfa

Lance

Langevin

Latta

Lawson (FL)

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Loebsack

Long

Love

Lowey

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

MacArthur

Maloney, Sean

Marchant

Marino

Marshall

McCarthy

McCaul

McEachin

McKinley

McSally

Meehan

Messer

Mitchell

Moolenaar

Mullin

Murphy (FL)

Newhouse

Noem

Norcross

Nunes

O'Halleran

Olson

Palazzo

Palmer

Panetta

Paulsen

Pelosi

Peters

Peterson

Pittenger

Poliquin

Quigley

Ratcliffe

Reed

Reichert

Renacci

Rice (NY)

Rice (SC)

Roby

Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rooney, Francis

Rooney, Thomas J.

Ros-Lehtinen

Rosen

Roskam

Ross

Rothfus

Rouzer

Royce (CA)

Ruiz

Ruppersberger

Russell

Rutherford

Ryan (WI)

Schiff

Schneider

Scott, Austin

Sessions

Sewell (AL)

Shimkus

Shuster

Simpson

Sinema

Sires

Smith (MO)

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smucker

Stefanik

Stewart

Stivers

Suozzi

Swalwell (CA)

Taylor

Tenney

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tiberi

Tipton

Torres

Trott

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Visclosky

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walker

Walorski

Walters, Mimi

Wasserman Schultz

Wenstrup

Westerman

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Womack

Young (IA)

Not voting — 16

Adams

Babin

Carbajal

Cárdenas

Cummings

DeSaulnier

Hanabusa

Huffman

Kind

McHenry

McNerney

Nolan

Pascrell

Rush

Scalise

Wilson (FL)

Minority party (Democrats) in italics

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