🧵 Many people have been misled today. There was not a vote on the FISA bill. There was a vote on a resolution that would have allowed FISA, as well as 6 amendments to it, including a warrant requirement amendment, and three other pieces of legislation to come to the floor.
On partisan procedural votes like this, Democrats reflexively vote no and Republicans typically vote yes. 19 Republicans voted with all the Democrats to stop everything from coming to the floor today, including the warrant amendment to FISA.
@RepThomasMassie I don’t really care about getting others positions on record for the ages but I do care about ending FISA and that just happened.
@RepThomasMassie A valuable distinction. We need more heads-ups like this, because we peasants have a lot of trouble figuring out what's actually going on in D.C.. Feel free to give explanations like this, in simple terms, really really often.