Not voting: Duffy

GUANTANAMO BAY CLOSURE: Voting 177 for and 247 against, the House on Thursday defeated an amendment to HR 4435 (above) to shut down the U.S. military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, by the end of 2016.

A yes vote was to close the Guantanamo Bay military prison.

Voting yes: Pocan, Kind, Moore

Voting no: Ryan, Sensenbrenner, Petri, Ribble

Not voting: Duffy

CURBS ON NSA SURVEILLANCE: By a vote of 303 for and 121 against, the House on Thursday passed a bill (HR 3361) that would scale back the National Security Agency’s authority to collect bulk data on Americans’ phone calls and other telecommunications under federal statutes such as Section 215 of the USA Patriot Act. Under the bill, when the NSA requests authority from a Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court judge to search telecommunications involving U.S. citizens, it must provide a degree of specific information — short of probable cause — to identify its target in the context of a terrorism investigation.