The House of Representatives may vote very soon on a bad compromise that would in effect grant retroactive immunity to telecommunications companies in the new version of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA).
If you live in Iowa’s third district, please call Congressman Leonard Boswell TODAY at 202-225-3806 to tell him to stand up for civil liberties and oppose the Senate version of the FISA bill.
His staff will notice if they get a lot of calls on this issue.
Background: Boswell was one of the “Blue Dogs” who supported the Republican position on this bill in February.
He changed his position a month later and stood with the majority of House Democrats.
The New York Times blog has more on the FISA compromise here.
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Pushing Boswell to the left
This vote could be interesting. Let’s see if Fallon’s primary challenge to Boswell has actually had an impact on his thinking and to see if he’ll continue to take more progressive stances than he has in the past…the Boz is a good congressman, he just needs more progressive guidance.
chris-woods Wed 18 Jun 1:59 PM