I posted this in GD earlier.
Bill Nelson's office confused me totally today. I think my leg was pulled.I posted that in spite of his vote today, his office told me that he was not for immunity in the FISA bill. They said he supported the Dodd amendment.
But look at this vote today. From TPM:
Well, one down. The Senate just voted to kill (table) the Senate Judiciary Committee's surveillance bill, which did not contain retroactive immunity for the telecoms. The vote was 60-36 to table, with a number of Dems crossing over. As we said earlier, a number of other amendments will also go up for votes this afternoon.
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"Update: The final tally was actually 60-36, not 60-34, and the full list of Dems voting to kill were: Sens. Evan Bayh (D-IN), Tom Carper (D-DE), Daniel Inouye (D-HI), Tim Johnson (D-SD), Mary Landrieu (D-LA), Claire McCaskill (D-MO), Barbara Mikulski (D-MD), Bill Nelson (D-FL), Ben Nelson (D-NE), Mark Pryor (D-AR), Jay Rockefeller (D-WV), and Ken Salazar (D-CO).TPM MuckrakerBut look what I found tonight while doing a search on the subject to ease my confusion. It was not the truth that his office told me.
US Lawmakers Disagree over Terms For Renewing Wiretap LawRead this part carefully, very carefully indeed.
Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut, who recently ended a bid for his party's presidential nomination, is vowing to block any bill that includes immunity for telephone companies. "I am vehemently opposed to that. I would utilize whatever vehicles are available to a senator here to stop that from becoming law with retroactive immunity in it," he said.
But Senator Bill Nelson, a Florida Democrat, agrees with the White House position. "At the end of the day we have to have the cooperation of the telecommunications companies, and they should not have the threat of a spurious lawsuits hanging over their heads," he said.
Shame on him, and shame on his office for misleading the people who called today.
When did it become okay to say one thing and do another? On the same day. How very nervy.