On Thursday, the Senate took up a key bill to reauthorize domestic surveillance programs while making changes to the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act.<br />One of the amendments would have required authorities to obtain a warrant to access internet users’ search histories and browsing information.<br />The amendment failed with 59 yeas to 37 nays.<br />The bill was one vote short of the 60-vote threshold it needed to overcome the filibuster.<br />Bernie Sanders was conspicuously absent and did not vote.<br />Now, many of his staunchest supporters are wondering where he was.<br />Slate asked Sanders spokesman where the senator was at the time of the vote and why he did not do the job he was elected to do.<br />A Sanders spokesman has not responded to Slate's request for comment about the senator’s whereabouts.
