[ACLU-CU ALERT] Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act

[Champaign County ACLU Announcements]

This morning, the U.S. House of Representatives voted 293-129 to pass a version of the revision to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) that ACLU opposed.  For details about the bill, go to the ACLU's web site http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/35726prs20080619.htmlOur U.S. Representative Tim Johnson was the only Republican to vote "no."  
 
Rep. Johnson called me yesterday to ask the ACLU's position on the bill because a compromise between Democratic and Republican leadership had been worked out yesterday and many House members who had opposed the last bill revising FISA agreed to support the compromise.   
 
Calls to Representative Johnson's office to thank him are certainly in order.  The local phone number is 403-4690.
 
>From Illinois, also voting "no" were the newest member of the Illinois delegation, Bill Foster, and long-time civil liberties advocates Danny Davis, Jesse Jackson Jr. and Jan Schakowsky (Bobby Rush is ill and was not voting).   
 
Esther Patt
Chapter President
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