Wisconsin Senate Debate: on Civil Rights


Russell Feingold: The Patriot Act allows people to monitor your computer usage

FEINGOLD: I found some things in [the PATRIOT Act] that were deeply troubling, opportunities for people to monitor your computer usage, to get into your home & your library records without any demonstration of a connection to terrorism.

MICHELS: We can talk about all these boogie men. There have been no civil liberty violations via the Patriot Act. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in this country in over 3 years and 8 al Qaeda cells have been broken up because of the Patriot Act.

Source: WI Senate Debate, on NBC15.Madison.com Oct 20, 2004

Tim Michels: No civil liberty violations via the Patriot Act

FEINGOLD: I found some things in [the PATRIOT Act] that were deeply troubling, opportunities for people to monitor your computer usage, to get into your home & your library records without any demonstration of a connection to terrorism.

MICHELS: We can talk about all these boogie men. There have been no civil liberty violations via the Patriot Act. There hasn’t been a terrorist attack in this country in over 3 years and 8 al Qaeda cells have been broken up because of the Patriot Act.

Source: [Xref Feingold] WI Senate Debate, in Journal Sentinel Oct 20, 2004

Russell Feingold: Shouldn’t change the Constitution to ban gay marriage

We should treat gays and lesbians like everybody else. We all should have the same rights. The federal government shouldn’t be changing the Constitution. We should be focusing on other priorities.
Source: WI Senate Debate, in Washington Post Oct 18, 2004

  • The above quotations are from Wisconsin Senate Debates: Russell Feingold (D) vs. Tim Michles (R), series of debates in October, 2004.
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Candidates and political leaders on Civil Rights:

Retired Senate as of Jan. 2015:
GA:Chambliss(R)
IA:Harkin(D)
MI:Levin(D)
MT:Baucus(D)
NE:Johanns(R)
OK:Coburn(R)
SD:Johnson(D)
WV:Rockefeller(D)

Resigned from 113th House:
AL-1:Jo Bonner(R)
FL-19:Trey Radel(R)
LA-5:Rod Alexander(R)
MA-5:Ed Markey(D)
MO-9:Jo Ann Emerson(R)
NC-12:Melvin Watt(D)
SC-1:Tim Scott(R) 		Retired House to run for Senate or Governor:
AR-4:Tom Cotton(R)
GA-1:Jack Kingston(R)
GA-10:Paul Broun(R)
GA-11:Phil Gingrey(R)
HI-1:Colleen Hanabusa(D)
IA-1:Bruce Braley(D)
LA-6:Bill Cassidy(R)
ME-2:Mike Michaud(D)
MI-14:Gary Peters(D)
MT-0:Steve Daines(R)
OK-5:James Lankford(R)
PA-13:Allyson Schwartz(D)
TX-36:Steve Stockman(R)
WV-2:Shelley Capito(R) 		Retired House as of Jan. 2015:
AL-6:Spencer Bachus(R)
AR-2:Tim Griffin(R)
CA-11:George Miller(D)
CA-25:Howard McKeon(R)
CA-33:Henry Waxman(D)
CA-45:John Campbell(R)
IA-3:Tom Latham(R)
MN-6:Michele Bachmann(R)
NC-6:Howard Coble(R)
NC-7:Mike McIntyre(D)
NJ-3:Jon Runyan(R)
NY-4:Carolyn McCarthy(D)
NY-21:Bill Owens(D)
PA-6:Jim Gerlach(R)
UT-4:Jim Matheson(D)
VA-8:Jim Moran(D)
VA-10:Frank Wolf(R)
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