Thanks only to 10 Senators
For the record – and I will remember this – these are the only Senators who stood up for my civil liberties by voting against the renewal of the USA Patriot Act.
I thank you:
- Russ Feingold (D-WI)
- Patrick Leahy (D-VT)
- Robert Byrd (D-WV)
- Tom Harkin (D-IA)
- Ron Wyden (D-OR)
- Daniel Akaka (D-HI)
- Patty Murray (D-WA)
- Jeff Bingaman (D-NM)
- Carl Levin (D-MI)
- Jim Jeffords (I-VT)
Boo-hiss to all the Republicans, and:
- Obama (D-IL)
- Clinton (D-NY)
- Kerry (D-MA)
- Kennedy (D-MA)
- Biden (D-DE)
- Boxer (D-CA)
- Feinstein (D-CA)
- Schumer (D-NY)
- Durbin (D-IL)
- Landrieu (D-LA)
- Lieberman (D-CT)
- Baucus (D-MT)
- Bayh (D-IN)
- Cantwell (D-WA)
- Carper (D-DE)
- Conrad (D-ND)
- Dayton (D-MN)
- Dodd (D-CT)
- Dorgan (D-ND)
- Inouye (D-HI) (no vote)
- Johnson (D-SD)
- Kohl (D-WI)
- Lautenberg (D-NJ)
- Lincoln (D-AR)
- Menendez (D-NJ)
- Mikulski (D-MD)
- Nelson (D-FL)
- Nelson (D-NE)
- Pryor (D-AR)
- Reed (D-RI)
- Reid (D-NV)
- Rockefeller (D-WV)
- Salazar (D-CO)
- Sarbanes (D-MD)
- Stabenow (D-MI)