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Senate Roll Call 519, 116th Congress · May 14, 2020

To amend the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 to prohibit the use of authorities under such Act to surveil United States persons and to prohibit the use of information acquired under such Act in any criminal, civil, or administrative proceeding or as part of any criminal, civil, or administrative investigation, and for other purposes.

Question before the chamber: On the Amendment

11 yea · 85 nayAmendment Rejected4 not voting or present
Democrat0 yea · 43 nay
Republican11 yea · 39 nay
Independent0 yea · 3 nay

Solid = yea, faded = nay.

The measure

H.R. 6172 ↗

USA FREEDOM Reauthorization Act of 2020

Policy area: Armed Forces and National Security — 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.

  • Defense & War PowersA yea counts toward “Military restraint”

    model(0.95): Prohibiting FISA surveillance of US persons restrains government surveillance powers.

    Tagged by: policy-area:Armed Forces and National Security

    Axis: Military restraint ← → Military expansion

Who voted which way

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

Yea (11)

Nay (85)

Not voting or present (4)

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