Shrunken Head Pats

"The erosion of freedom rarely comes as an all-out frontal assault," warned Bobby Byrd, the dean of the Senate. "Rather, it is a gradual, noxious creeping cloaked in secrecy, and glossed over by reassurances(ha) of greater security(ha)."
The "no" votes came from Robert Byrd, Jim Jeffords, Russell Feingold, Daniel Akaka, Jeff Bingaman, Tom Harkin, Patrick Leahy, Carl Levin, Patty Murray and Ron Wyden. Sen. Daniel Inouye did not vote. The bill is HR3199. http://thomas.loc.gov/