Go Russ! Go Russ! It’s your birthday! It’s your birthday!

Ahem… Sorry. Just a little unbridled joy at learning that my Senator (mine and mine alone) just got FISA and Telecom Immunity post-poned. Doesn’t having a Senator like Russ Feingold make you want to move to Wisconsin?

From TheHill.com:

Leaders had hoped to finish both measures this week, in addition to an emergency war-spending bill and a Medicare bill, before lawmakers return home by week’s end. Both bills have wide support, but in each case, individual senators have refused to let the measures speed through the chamber. As a result, they were forced to lower the bar for this week’s action.

Democrats also threatened to keep the Senate in session through the weekend if Republicans didn’t agree to move quickly with the Medicare bill.

Objections by Sen. Russ Feingold (D-Wis.) will push back an overhaul of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) until after lawmakers return in July, Democratic leaders said Thursday. Feingold is strongly opposed to language that would likely give telephone companies that participated in warrantless surveillance retroactive immunity from lawsuits.

“It doesn’t look like it,” Senate Majority Whip Dick Durbin (D-Ill.) said of taking up the FISA bill this week. “Sen. Feingold wants additional time and would like to postpone it until after the Fourth of July.”

TheHill.com - Housing bill, FISA delayed until after July recess.