ALAWON: American Library Association Washington Office Newsline Volume 14, Number 58 June 16, 2005 In This Issue: Sanders' Amendment Passes: Library Patrons Again Free to Read! Last night, in a stunning 238-187 victory (votes below, at the bottom of this message), Rep. Bernie Sanders' (I-VT) amendment to the House Science-State-Justice Subcommittee (SSJC) appropriations bill passed. The appropriations bill funds the Justice Department and Sanders' amendment bars the Department from using any of the appropriated money to search library and bookstore records under Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act. Action Needed! The Representatives who voted for the bill are listed below. If your Representative is on the list, please take a moment today to thank him or her for their efforts to protect the rights of library users and bookstore patrons. Please also take a moment today to thank Representative Sanders, who continues to be a true champion for library user rights. You can find contact information and send e-mails directly to your members of Congress through the Legislative Action Center at: http://capwiz.com/ala/home/. Background: Like the Freedom to Read Protection Act (H.R. 1157) also sponsored by Congressman Sanders, the Sanders Freedom to Read Amendment restores legal standards and warrant procedures for investigations of library and bookstore records that were in place before passage of the USA PATRIOT Act. The text of the amendment reads, "None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to make an application under section 501 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act of 1978 (50 U.S.C. 1861) for an order requiring the production of library circulation records, library patron lists, book sales records, or book customer lists." Section 215 of the USA PATRIOT Act dramatically expanded the scope of materials the FBI can access with a warrant from the government's secret Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act or "FISA" court. This section gives the FBI the power to search for any "tangible things (including books, records, papers, documents, and other items)" in any location without having to name the subject of the search, permitting "fishing expeditions" in library records. Millions of people across the country, including librarians and booksellers, are concerned about the chilling effect of this legislation, which encourages users to self-censor their reading choices. Seven state legislatures, 44 state library associations, and 381 cities and towns representing nearly 62 million people have passed resolutions expressing their concerns with Section 215 and other specific provisions of the USA PATRIOT Act. Vote Tallies: Yes Votes – 238: Abercrombie Ackerman Allen Andrews Baca Baird Baldwin Barrow Bartlett (MD) Bean Becerra Berkley Berman Berry Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Bishop (UT) Blumenauer Boehlert Boozman Boswell Boucher Boyd Brady (PA) Brown (OH) Brown, Corrine Burgess Butterfield Capps Capuano Cardin Cardoza Carnahan Carson Case Castle Chandler Clay Cleaver Clyburn Conyers Cooper Costa Costello Cramer Crowley Cubin Cummings Davis (AL) Davis (CA) Davis (FL) Davis (IL) Davis (TN) DeFazio DeGette Delahunt DeLauro Dicks Dingell Doggett Doyle Duncan Edwards Ehlers Emanuel Emerson Engel Eshoo Etheridge Evans Farr Fattah Filner Fitzpatrick (PA) Flake Ford Frank (MA) Gillmor Gonzalez Gordon Green, Al Green, Gene Grijalva Gutierrez Harman Harris Hastings (FL) Herseth Higgins Hinchey Hinojosa Holden Holt Honda Hooley Hoyer Inslee Israel Jackson (IL) Jackson-Lee (TX) Jefferson Johnson (IL) Johnson, E. B. Jones (NC) Jones (OH) Kanjorski Kaptur Kennedy (RI) Kildee Kilpatrick (MI) Kind Kingston Kirk Kucinich LaHood Langevin Lantos Larsen (WA) Larson (CT) LaTourette Leach Lee Levin Lewis (GA) Lipinski Lofgren, Zoe Lowey Lynch Maloney Manzullo Markey Marshall Matheson Matsui McCarthy McCollum (MN) McDermott McGovern McIntyre McKinney McNulty Meehan Meek (FL) Meeks (NY) Melancon Menendez Michaud Millender-McDonald Miller (FL) Miller (NC) Miller, George Mollohan Moore (KS) Moore (WI) Moran (KS) Moran (VA) Murtha Musgrave Nadler Napolitano Neal (MA) Ney Obey Olver Ortiz Otter Owens Pallone Pascrell Pastor Paul Payne Pelosi Peterson (MN) Peterson (PA) Petri Poe Pomeroy Porter Price (NC) Rahall Rangel Rehberg Reyes Ross Rothman Roybal-Allard Ruppersberger Rush Ryan (OH) Sabo Salazar Sánchez, Linda T. Sanchez, Loretta Sanders Schakowsky Schiff Schwartz (PA) Schwarz (MI) Scott (GA) Scott (VA) Serrano Sherman Skelton Slaughter Smith (WA) Snyder Solis Spratt Stark Strickland Stupak Tanner Tauscher Taylor (MS) Taylor (NC) Thompson (CA) Thompson (MS) Tierney Towns Udall (CO) Udall (NM) Van Hollen Velázquez Visclosky Walden (OR) Wasserman Schultz Waters Watson Watt Waxman Weiner Wexler Whitfield Woolsey Wu Wynn Young (AK) NO Votes (187): Aderholt Akin Alexander Bachus Baker Barrett (SC) Barton (TX) Bass Beauprez Biggert Bilirakis Blackburn Blunt Boehner Bonilla Bonner Boren Boustany Bradley (NH) Brady (TX) Brown (SC) Brown-Waite, Ginny Burton (IN) Buyer Calvert Camp Cannon Cantor Capito Carter Chabot Chocola Coble Cole (OK) Conaway Cox Crenshaw Culberson Cunningham Davis (KY) Davis, Jo Ann Davis, Tom Deal (GA) DeLay Dent Diaz-Balart, L. Diaz-Balart, M. Doolittle Drake Dreier English (PA) Everett Feeney Ferguson Foley Forbes Fortenberry Fossella Foxx Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallegly Gerlach Gibbons Gilchrest Gingrey Gohmert Goode Goodlatte Granger Graves Green (WI) Gutknecht Hall Hart Hastings (WA) Hayes Hayworth Hefley Hensarling Herger Hobson Hoekstra Hostettler Hulshof Hunter Inglis (SC) Issa Istook Jenkins Jindal Johnson (CT) Johnson, Sam Keller Kelly Kennedy (MN) King (IA) King (NY) Kline Knollenberg Kolbe Kuhl (NY) Latham Lewis (CA) Lewis (KY) Linder LoBiondo Lucas Lungren, Daniel E. Mack Marchant McCaul (TX) McCotter McCrery McHenry McHugh McKeon McMorris Mica Miller (MI) Miller, Gary Murphy Myrick Neugebauer Northup Norwood Nunes Nussle Osborne Oxley Pearce Pence Pickering Pitts Platts Pombo Price (GA) Pryce (OH) Putnam Radanovich Ramstad Regula Reichert Renzi Reynolds Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rohrabacher Ros-Lehtinen Royce Ryan (WI) Ryun (KS) Saxton Sensenbrenner Shadegg Shaw Shays Sherwood Shimkus Shuster Simmons Simpson Smith (NJ) Smith (TX) Sodrel Souder Stearns Sweeney Tancredo Terry Thomas Thornberry Tiahrt Tiberi Turner Upton Walsh Wamp Weldon (FL) Weller Westmoreland Wicker Wilson (NM) Wilson (SC) Wolf Young (FL) NOT VOTING (8): Bono Cuellar Garrett (NJ) Hyde Oberstar Sessions Sullivan Weldon (PA) ****** ALAWON (ISSN 1069-7799) is a free, irregular publication of the American Library Association Washington Office. 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