CISPA, or the Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act, or "the worst privacy disaster our country has ever faced" has just passed through the House of Representatives with an astounding majority of 288 to 127.


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The Cyber Intelligence Sharing and Protection Act wormed its way into the public consiousness shorty after the Internet's big SOPA smackdown. But unlike previous legislation that aimed to snag some precious Internet control for the government by whining about "content theft," CISPA's plan is/was to scoop up information on you in the name of security against cyberthreats by allowing (but really coercing) companies to share your data with good ol' Johnny Law. And now it's continuing to roll on towards becoming law.


This isn't CISPA's first run at law-hood. Last year the bill managed to pass a House vote as well before ultimately languishing in the Senate. And though there was hope that perhaps its ressurected form would have more privacy protections for the average citizen, it persisted—and has passed again—pretty much unchanged.

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Fortunately this is only the first step, though one pretty easily made. But besides the Senate hurdle, there's also the matter of a veto; President Obama promised to smack down CISPA if it made its way to him back in 2012, and he's reiterated that promise this time as well.


Though decisive, the 288-to-127 isn't the two-thirds required to overcome such a veto without another vote. Whether or not it will come to that all depends on whether or not the bill can fair better in the Senate this time around. It seems unlikely that the Democrat-controlled Senate would go too buckwild passing a bill with a standing veto-threat from President Obama. Here's to hoping.


Wanna know if your House Reps voted for CISPA? Here are the yeas:

Aderholt

Alexander

Amodei

Bachus

Barber

Barletta

Barr

Barrow (GA)

Barton

Beatty

Benishek

Bera (CA)

Bilirakis

Bishop (GA)

Bishop (NY)

Black

Bonner

Boustany

Brady (TX)

Brooks (AL)

Brooks (IN)

Brown (FL)

Brownley (CA)

Buchanan

Bucshon

Burgess

Bustos

Butterfield

Calvert

Camp

Campbell

Cantor

Capito

Cárdenas

Carney

Carter

Cassidy

Castor (FL)

Chabot

Chaffetz

Clarke

Clay

Cleaver

Clyburn

Coble

Coffman

Cole

Collins (GA)

Collins (NY)

Conaway

Connolly

Cook

Cooper

Costa

Cotton

Cramer

Crawford

Crenshaw

Cuellar

Culberson

Daines

Denham

Dent

DesJarlais

Deutch

Diaz-Balart

Dingell

Duckworth

Duffy

Duncan (TN)

Ellmers

Enyart

Farenthold

Fincher

Fitzpatrick

Fleischmann

Flores

Forbes

Fortenberry

Foster

Foxx

Frankel (FL)

Franks (AZ)

Frelinghuysen

Fudge

Gallego

Garamendi

Garcia

Gardner

Gerlach

Gibbs

Gingrey (GA)

Goodlatte

Gowdy

Granger

Graves (GA)

Graves (MO)

Green, Al

Green, Gene

Griffin (AR)

Griffith (VA)

Grimm

Guthrie

Gutierrez

Hanabusa

Hanna

Harper

Harris

Hartzler

Hastings (FL)

Hastings (WA)

Heck (NV)

Heck (WA)

Hensarling

Higgins

Himes

Horsford

Hoyer

Hudson

Huizenga (MI)

Hultgren

Hunter

Hurt

Israel

Issa

Jeffries

Jenkins

Johnson (OH)

Johnson, E. B.

Johnson, Sam

Jordan

Joyce

Kaptur

Kelly (IL)

Kelly (PA)

Kilmer

Kind

King (IA)

King (NY)

Kinzinger (IL)

Kirkpatrick

Kline

Kuster

LaMalfa

Lamborn

Lance

Langevin

Lankford

Larsen (WA)

Latham

Latta

Lipinski

LoBiondo

Long

Lucas

Luetkemeyer

Lujan Grisham (NM)

Luján, Ben Ray (NM)

Lummis

Maffei

Maloney, Sean

Marino

Matheson

McCarthy (CA)

McCarthy (NY)

McCaul

McHenry

McIntyre

McKeon

McKinley

McMorris Rodgers

Meehan

Meeks

Meng

Messer

Mica

Miller (FL)

Miller (MI)

Moran

Mullin

Mulvaney

Murphy (FL)

Murphy (PA)

Neugebauer

Noem

Nunes

Nunnelee

Olson

Owens

Palazzo

Pastor (AZ)

Paulsen

Payne

Pearce

Perlmutter

Perry

Peters (CA)

Peterson

Petri

Pittenger

Pitts

Poe (TX)

Pompeo

Price (GA)

Quigley

Radel

Rahall

Rangel

Reed

Reichert

Renacci

Ribble

Rice (SC)

Richmond

Roby

Roe (TN)

Rogers (AL)

Rogers (KY)

Rogers (MI)

Rokita

Rooney

Ros-Lehtinen

Roskam

Ross

Rothfus

Royce

Ruiz

Runyan

Ruppersberger

Ryan (WI)

Salmon

Sanchez, Loretta

Scalise

Schneider

Schock

Schrader

Schwartz

Schweikert

Scott, Austin

Scott, David

Sessions

Sewell (AL)

Shuster

Simpson

Sinema

Sires

Smith (NE)

Smith (NJ)

Smith (TX)

Smith (WA)

Southerland

Stewart

Stivers

Stutzman

Swalwell (CA)

Terry

Thompson (CA)

Thompson (MS)

Thompson (PA)

Thornberry

Tiberi

Tipton

Titus

Turner

Upton

Valadao

Vargas

Veasey

Vela

Wagner

Walberg

Walden

Walorski

Weber (TX)

Webster (FL)

Wenstrup

Westmoreland

Whitfield

Williams

Wilson (SC)

Wittman

Wolf

Womack

Woodall

Yoder

Young (AK)

Young (FL)

Young (IN)