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Casey and Specter no longer have "Civil Liberties" as a possible subject line on their web forms.
Weird.
I ended up using "Civil Rights" for Specter and "Clean Government" for Casey.
I don't have high hopes for either of my Senators.
For all of Specter's reputation for being a true independent conservative and believer in small, restrained government, he hasn't done much of anything to stop the President's power-grab and has facilitated it as member and former Chair of the Senate Judiciary Committee.
As for Casey, he voted for the FISA bill last time. Then again, he did vote for cloture on restoring habeas corpus rights - so one might infer that he would have voted in favor of said rights. He also votes YES on all of those oh-so-important Support-the-Troops/English-is-the-Common-Language/Christianity Exists-and-is-Historically-Significant pronouncements that take up so much of the Senate's time these days.
(BTW - if you wonder how your legislators have voted in the past, go to votesmart.org.)
