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Senate Roll Call 468, 112th Congress · December 27, 2012

To require the Attorney General to disclose each decision, order, or opinion of a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court that includes significant legal interpretation of section 501 or 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 unless such disclosure is not in the national security interest of the United States.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

37 yea · 54 nayAmendment Rejected9 not voting or present
Democrat33 yea · 13 nay
Republican3 yea · 40 nay
Independent1 yea · 1 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 5949 ↗

FISA Amendments Act Reauthorization Act of 2012

Policy area: Crime and Law Enforcement — assigned by Library of Congress subject specialists, not by this site.

How this vote is scored

Which tracked issues this roll call counts toward, and which way a yea vote moves a member on each. Direction is decided per issue, because one bill can push two issues opposite ways.

  • Criminal JusticeA yea counts toward “Reform-oriented”

    model(0.90): Requiring disclosure of FISA court opinions increases surveillance transparency and reform.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Crime and Law Enforcement

    Axis: Reform-oriented ← → Punitive

Who voted which way

Every member recorded on this roll call, with the party they sat with at the time.

Yea (37)

Nay (54)

Not voting or present (9)

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