Senator Slaps Down FISA Telecom Immunity

cleetus writes "Today Senator Chris Dodd decided to put a hold on the FISA bill, one of the provisions of which would have granted immunity to any telecom which, if found to have acted in good faith, violated U.S. laws in turning over customer data to the government. According to TPM Election Central, "By doing this, Dodd can effectively hold up the telecom immunity bill, because bills are supposed to have unanimous consent in the Senate before going forward. One Senator can make it very difficult to bring a bill to the floor by objecting to allowing it to go to a vote." This throws a fairly big roadblock in front of this bill, covered by Slashdot earlier today."

Comments

Re:Nice to know...

[Jackie_Chan_Fan]

Well at least 1 democrat is actually doing something in the senate.

Note to republicans: Dont get a boner over this comment, your band of idiots suck too.

You must be new here

[Anonymous Coward]

Why are you coming up with absurd analogies that don't work in order to justify warrantless spying on American citizens?

Just consider yourself lucky it wasn't a car analogy.

Re:Bad analogy

[Nimey]

Aw, what kind of an analogy is that? I didn't see mention of a car anywhere.