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<body class='hmmessage'>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 <A href="http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/35726prs20080619.html" target=_blank>http://www.aclu.org/safefree/general/35726prs20080619.html</A><BR><BR>Our U.S. Representative Tim Johnson was the only Republican to vote "no." <BR>
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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. <BR>
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Calls to Representative Johnson's office to thank him are certainly in order. The local phone number is 403-4690.<BR>
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>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). <BR>
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Esther Patt<BR>
Chapter President<BR><br /><hr />The i’m Talkathon starts 6/24/08. For now, give amongst yourselves. <a href='http://www.imtalkathon.com?source=TXT_EML_WLH_LearnMore_GiveAmongst' target='_new'>Learn More</a></body>
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