Senate Passes CISA, The Surveillance Bill Masquerading As A Cybersecurity Bill; Here's Who Sold Out Your Privacy

After rejecting all the good privacy amendments to CISA, the Senate has now officially passed the legislation by a 74 to 21 vote. About the only "good" news is that the vote is lower than the 83 Senators who voted for cloture on it last week. Either way, the Senate basically just passed a bill that will almost certainly be used mainly for warrantless domestic surveillance, rather than any actual cybersecurity concern.

If you'd like to know which Senators voted for greater domestic surveillance, here's your list:

• Alexander (R-TN)
• Ayotte (R-NH)
• Barrasso (R-WY)
• Bennet (D-CO)
• Blumenthal (D-CT)
• Blunt (R-MO)
• Boozman (R-AR)
• Boxer (D-CA)
• Burr (R-NC)
• Cantwell (D-WA)
• Capito (R-WV)
• Carper (D-DE)
• Casey (D-PA)
• Cassidy (R-LA)
• Coats (R-IN)
• Cochran (R-MS)
• Collins (R-ME)
• Corker (R-TN)
• Cornyn (R-TX)
• Cotton (R-AR)
• Donnelly (D-IN)
• Durbin (D-IL)
• Enzi (R-WY)
• Ernst (R-IA)
• Feinstein (D-CA)
• Fischer (R-NE)
• Flake (R-AZ)
• Gardner (R-CO)
• Gillibrand (D-NY)
• Grassley (R-IA)
• Hatch (R-UT)
• Heinrich (D-NM)
• Heitkamp (D-ND)
• Hirono (D-HI)
• Hoeven (R-ND)
• Inhofe (R-OK)
• Isakson (R-GA)
• Johnson (R-WI)
• Kaine (D-VA)
• King (I-ME)
• Kirk (R-IL)
• Klobuchar (D-MN)
• Lankford (R-OK)
• Manchin (D-WV)
• McCain (R-AZ)
• McCaskill (D-MO)
• McConnell (R-KY)
• Mikulski (D-MD)
• Moran (R-KS)
• Murkowski (R-AK)
• Murphy (D-CT)
• Murray (D-WA)
• Nelson (D-FL)
• Perdue (R-GA)
• Peters (D-MI)
• Portman (R-OH)
• Reed (D-RI)
• Reid (D-NV)
• Roberts (R-KS)
• Rounds (R-SD)
• Sasse (R-NE)
• Schatz (D-HI)
• Schumer (D-NY)
• Scott (R-SC)
• Sessions (R-AL)
• Shaheen (D-NH)
• Shelby (R-AL)
• Stabenow (D-MI)
• Thune (R-SD)
• Tillis (R-NC)
• Toomey (R-PA)
• Warner (D-VA)
• Whitehouse (D-RI)
• Wicker (R-MS)

And here's the tragically short list of the 21 who voted against this.

• Baldwin (D-WI)
• Booker (D-NJ)
• Brown (D-OH)
• Cardin (D-MD)
• Coons (D-DE)
• Crapo (R-ID)
• Daines (R-MT)
• Franken (D-MN)
• Heller (R-NV)
• Leahy (D-VT)
• Lee (R-UT)
• Markey (D-MA)
• Menendez (D-NJ)
• Merkley (D-OR)
• Risch (R-ID)
• Sanders (I-VT)
• Sullivan (R-AK)
• Tester (D-MT)
• Udall (D-NM)
• Warren (D-MA)
• Wyden (D-OR)

If you're wondering what happens now: the Senate version and the House version are different, so the differences need to be resolved in conference. There's a chance that could lead to the bill being made better, but it's more likely that the bill will actually be made worse. And then, of course, assuming no substantial changes, it would go to the President's desk for signature. So the bill is pretty far along, but it can still be stopped. Senator Ron Wyden, who has led the fight against it says he's not giving up yet.

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