Great site. I was able to research and find that Congresswoman Kyrsten Sinema, serving Arizona's 9th District was cosponsor of the Amash bill but voted against the amendment, stating that it "has an unintended consequence".
Her press release is full of wonderful contradictions and weasel words:
“I have very real concerns about the federal government’s action and lack of transparency regarding the collection and retention of law-abiding Americans’ private information. "
Straight to:
"I believe that we must work toward less intrusive methods to ensure our security. The broad language we considered today could have limited the ability of our national security and law enforcement community to prevent the bombing plot against the New York subway system or to quickly respond to events like the Boston bombing."
Wrapping it all up with:
"There are other ways than the invasive collection of metadata to ensure the security of Americans while protecting our precious 4th Amendment rights.”
Ok... so there are other ways, gotcha.... but you don't vote for an amendment which would have forced the NSA into using / finding other ways. Cool.
Her press release is full of wonderful contradictions and weasel words:
http://sinema.house.gov/index.cfm/press-releases?ID=b23deeab...
From:
“I have very real concerns about the federal government’s action and lack of transparency regarding the collection and retention of law-abiding Americans’ private information. "
Straight to:
"I believe that we must work toward less intrusive methods to ensure our security. The broad language we considered today could have limited the ability of our national security and law enforcement community to prevent the bombing plot against the New York subway system or to quickly respond to events like the Boston bombing."
Wrapping it all up with:
"There are other ways than the invasive collection of metadata to ensure the security of Americans while protecting our precious 4th Amendment rights.”
Ok... so there are other ways, gotcha.... but you don't vote for an amendment which would have forced the NSA into using / finding other ways. Cool.
Edit: I give her props for responding to my tweet though: https://twitter.com/fuzzywah/status/360441317609840642