Justin Amash’s amendment to curtail NSA narrowly defeated. The Roll Call:

Justin Amash’s amendment to curtail NSA spying on innocent Americans was narrowly defeated by a margin of 217-205.

(SCROLL DOWN FOR FULL ROLL CALL VOTE.) Both parties were fractured by the vote, however a majority of Republicans opposed the Amash amendment. No doubt, these Republicans and Democrats supporting NSA dragnet spying are going to get an earful when they return to their districts. Let’s hope many of them find themselves challenged in their primaries. Earlier in the evening, Rep. Thomas Massie’s amendment to cut off military aid to Egypt did pass by voice vote.

Full video of what went down:

We came close (205-217). If just 7 Reps had switched their votes, we would have succeeded. Thank YOU for making a difference. We fight on.

— Justin Amash (@repjustinamash) July 24, 2013

DefundTheNSA.com has put together an excellent list of contact info including twitter accounts.

 THE NO VOTES…

Aderholt Alexander Andrews Bachmann Barber Barr Barrow (GA) Benishek Bera (CA) Bilirakis Bishop (GA) Bishop (NY) Boehner Bonner Boustany Brady (TX) Brooks (AL) Brooks (IN) Brown (FL) Brownley (CA) Bucshon Butterfield Calvert Camp Cantor Capito Carney Carter Castor (FL) Castro (TX) Cole Collins (GA) Collins (NY) Conaway Cook Cooper Costa Cotton Crawford Crenshaw Cuellar Culberson Davis (CA) Delaney Denham Dent Diaz-Balart Duckworth Ellmers Engel Enyart Esty Flores Forbes Fortenberry Foster Foxx Frankel (FL) Franks (AZ) Frelinghuysen Gallego Garcia Gerlach Gibbs Gingrey (GA) Goodlatte Granger Graves (MO) Green, Al Grimm Guthrie Gutiérrez Hanabusa

Hanna Harper Hartzler Hastings (WA) Heck (NV) Heck (WA) Hensarling Higgins Himes Hinojosa Holding Hoyer Hudson Hunter Hurt Israel Issa Jackson Lee Johnson (GA) Johnson, E. B. Johnson, Sam Joyce Kaptur Kelly (IL) Kelly (PA) Kennedy Kilmer Kind King (IA) King (NY) Kinzinger (IL) Kirkpatrick Kline Kuster Lance Langevin Lankford Larsen (WA) Latham Latta Levin Lipinski LoBiondo Long Lowey Lucas Luetkemeyer Maloney, Sean Marino Matheson McCarthy (CA) McCaul McIntyre McKeon McKinley McNerney Meehan Meeks Meng Messer Miller (FL) Miller (MI) Murphy (FL) Murphy (PA) Neugebauer Noem Nunes Nunnelee Olson Palazzo Paulsen Payne Pelosi

Peters (CA) Peters (MI) Peterson Pittenger Pitts Pompeo Price (NC) Quigley Reed Reichert Renacci Rigell Roby Rogers (AL) Rogers (KY) Rogers (MI) Rooney Ros-Lehtinen Roskam Royce Ruiz Runyan Ruppersberger Ryan (OH) Ryan (WI) Schakowsky Schneider Schwartz Scott, Austin Scott, David Sessions Sewell (AL) Shimkus Shuster Simpson Sinema Sires Slaughter Smith (NE) Smith (TX) Smith (WA) Stivers Stutzman Terry Thompson (CA) Thornberry Tiberi Titus Turner Upton Valadao Van Hollen Vargas Veasey Visclosky Wagner Walberg Walden Walorski Wasserman Schultz Webster (FL) Wenstrup Westmoreland Whitfield Wilson (FL) Wittman Wolf Womack Woodall Young (FL) Young (IN)

You can find your representative’s contact information HERE.   

Notable tweets of the evening:

Boehner really did NOT want @repjustinamash amend to pass. Loudly said he was liking all the Noes.

— KateNocera (@KateNocera) July 24, 2013

 

Perhaps Nancy Pelosi and Michele Bachman can tour the country together making their case for NSA spying.

— Conor Friedersdorf (@conor64) July 24, 2013

 

Only a 12-vote margin to reject a bill to DE-FUND a major NSA program. Amazing coalition of left-wing and right-wing civil libertarians

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 24, 2013

 

James Sensenbrenner – the AUTHOR OF THE ORIGINAL PATRIOT ACT – now explaining that NSA spying exceeds the limits of what he even wants

— Glenn Greenwald (@ggreenwald) July 24, 2013

 

After the Amash Rebellion, there are two new parties in Congress: the authoritarians and the Americans.

— Justin Raimondo (@JustinRaimondo) July 24, 2013

A snapshot of video from the debate: