The U.S. Senate on Tuesday passed the Cybersecurity Information Sharing Act (CISA) without any of the proposed amendments that would have strengthened user protections. The bill passed 74-21 (see the roll call here).
Rights groups immediately called for President Barack Obama to veto the bill and vowed to keep pressure up.
“Every senator supporting #CISA today voted against a world with freedom, democracy, and basic human rights,” tweeted digital rights organization Fight for the Future. “If President Obama does not veto this bill, he’ll be showing that his administration never truly cared about the open Internet.”
“This vote will go down as the moment Congress codified the US government’s unconstitutional spying. A sad day for the Internet,” the group added.
In its response to CISA’s passage in the Senate, the Electronic Frontier Foundation marked its disappointment and said: “The bill is fundamentally flawed due to its broad immunity clauses, vague definitions, and aggressive spying authorities.”
With the bill now moving to conference committee, EFF expressed no confidence that it would be improved.
“The passage of CISA reflects the misunderstanding many lawmakers have about technology and security,” EFF continued. “Computer security engineers were against it. Academics were against it. Technology companies, including some of Silicon Valley’s biggest like Twitter and Salesforce, were against it. Civil society organizations were against it. And constituents sent over 1 million faxes opposing CISA to Senators.”
EFF vowed that the fight against the bill would continue through the conference committee process, where the group would urge lawmakers to add privacy provisions. “We will never stop fighting for lawmakers to either understand technology or understand when they need to listen to the people who do,” the group said.
The official Senate roll call to the vote follows:
Alphabetical by Senator Name
Ayotte (R-NH),
Baldwin (D-WI),
Barrasso (R-WY),
Bennet (D-CO),
Blumenthal (D-CT),
Blunt (R-MO),
Booker (D-NJ),
Boozman (R-AR),
Boxer (D-CA),
Brown (D-OH),
Burr (R-NC),
Cantwell (D-WA),
Capito (R-WV),
Cardin (D-MD),
Carper (D-DE),
Casey (D-PA),
Cassidy (R-LA),
Coats (R-IN),
Cochran (R-MS),
Collins (R-ME),
Coons (D-DE),
Corker (R-TN),
Cornyn (R-TX),
Cotton (R-AR),
Crapo (R-ID),
Cruz (R-TX),
Daines (R-MT),
Donnelly (D-IN),
Durbin (D-IL),
Enzi (R-WY),
Ernst (R-IA),
Feinstein (D-CA),
Fischer (R-NE),
Franken (D-MN),
Gardner (R-CO),
Gillibrand (D-NY),
Graham (R-SC),
Grassley (R-IA),
Hatch (R-UT),
Heinrich (D-NM),
Heitkamp (D-ND),
Heller (R-NV),
Hirono (D-HI),
Hoeven (R-ND),
Inhofe (R-OK),
Isakson (R-GA),
Johnson (R-WI),
Kaine (D-VA),
King (I-ME),
Kirk (R-IL),
Klobuchar (D-MN),
Lankford (R-OK),
Leahy (D-VT),
Lee (R-UT),
Manchin (D-WV),
Markey (D-MA),
McCain (R-AZ),
McCaskill (D-MO),
McConnell (R-KY),
Menendez (D-NJ),
Merkley (D-OR),
Mikulski (D-MD),
Moran (R-KS),
Murkowski (R-AK),
Murphy (D-CT),
Murray (D-WA),
Paul (R-KY),
Perdue (R-GA),
Peters (D-MI),
Portman (R-OH),
Reed (D-RI),
Reid (D-NV),
Risch (R-ID),
Roberts (R-KS),
Rounds (R-SD),
Rubio (R-FL),
Sanders (I-VT),
Sasse (R-NE),
Schatz (D-HI),
Schumer (D-NY),
Scott (R-SC),
Sessions (R-AL),
Shaheen (D-NH),
Shelby (R-AL),
Stabenow (D-MI),
Sullivan (R-AK),
Tester (D-MT),
Thune (R-SD),
Tillis (R-NC),
Toomey (R-PA),
Udall (D-NM),
Vitter (R-LA),
Warner (D-VA),
Warren (D-MA),
Whitehouse (D-RI),
Wicker (R-MS),
Wyden (D-OR),
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