VOTE 22, WARRANTLESS SURVEILLANCE. HAL ROGERS VOTED FOR, KENNNETH STEPP WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST.

         The New American says Hal Rogers voted against Freedom in Vote 22 of the Freedom Index of the 115th Congress.  The New American Magazine explains why he got a "minus" for his vote against that amendment as follows:
         "22  Warrantless Surveillance.  This bill (S. 139) would reauthorize for six years, through 2023, the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) which governs electronic surveillance of foreign terrorism suspects.  The bill would require the development of procedures for searching the NSA database that would protect the Fourth Amendment-guaranteed rights of U.S. citizens, while allowing the FBI to access information with an order from the secret FISA Court in certain cases.
           "The House passed S.139 on January 11, 2018 by a vote of 256 to 164 (Roll Call 16).  We have assigned pluses to the nays because FISA, while supposedly but in place to gather intelligence on foreign targets, has been used to spy on U.S. citizens.  While the bill does provide provisions to, ostensibly, protect the privacy of U.S. citizens, given the track record of intelligence agencies, it is unlikely that they would actually follow these rules.  The  FISA Court gives a green light to just about any surveillance request that comes its way, and FISA-approved NSA warrantless surveillance of American citizens has become common knowledge."
        VOTE FOR KENNETH  STEPP FOR CONGRESS FOR KY-05.  KENNETH STEPP WOULD HAVE VOTED AGAINST S. 139 WHICH WOULD REAUTHORIZE FOR SIX YEARS THE FOREIGN INTELLIGENCE SURVEILLANCE ACT, THROUGH 2023, BUT HAL ROGERS VOTED FOR IT, GETTING A NEGATIVE MARK FROM THE FREEDOM INDEX FOR THAT VOTE.  VOTE FOR FREEDOM!   VOTE FOR STEPP!