I want to expand a little bit on what Red Wind has said about the FISA votes today. As Matt Browner-Hamlin points out, this is close to the last waltz for this bill, at least in this round. After this, the bill goes to conference where it has to be reconciled by both the House and the Senate, and then both houses need to vote on it again. There are more opportunities to fight, though the situation looks increasingly bleak.
Matt explains about Chris Dodd and his filibuster promise. Dodd, along with the rest of the Democrats, agreed to a unanimous consent agreement (UC agreement), which stops a filibuster. They did this for a good reason:

The UC agreement included a simple majority vote to strip retroactive immunity from the underlying bill. Dodd had long said that he sought a majority vote on his amendment - that’s why he stopped the SSCI bill cold last December, by refusing UC on the motion to have all amendments require 60 votes. Agreeing to the UC agreement allowed him to have that. Disagreeing would have likely prevented from their being any vote to strip RI from the SSCI bill.

Without the UC agreement, there would simply have been no vote on retroactive immunity. Allowing a simple majority vote on stripping retroactive immunity from this bill, which will happen today, is a great thing. Why? Watch very carefully which Democrats vote against Dodd's amendment to strip out telecom amnesty. The bill only takes 51 votes to pass, and there are 51 members of the Democratic caucus in the Senate. Yet, there will likely be between 6 and 20 Democrats who vote against this amendment.
Notice who votes against stripping retroactive immunity. Write down their names. These are the Senators breaking rank and putting corporate interests above yours. These Senators (and Harry Reid is one of them) represent all that is wrong with the Democratic party. They are the ones continuing the war. They are the ones incessantly caving in to George Bush. This swing block of conservative Democrats - and their counterparts in the House - are the ones who shouldn't get your votes or your money come election time.
But hey, if you feel like sending them emails before the vote, go for it.
Otherwise, you can watch the proceedings below.

</p>UPDATE: Retroactive immunity was passed, 31-67. Roll call coming shortly so you can see who the traitors were.
UPDATE x2: Matt has a rough count up. Eighteen Dems voted for corporate interests. They are Bayh, Inouye, Johnson, Landrieu, McCaskill, Ben Nelson, Bill Nelson, Stabenow, Feinstein, Kohl, Pryor, Rockefeller, Salazar, Carper, Mikulski, Conrad, Webb, and Lincoln (plus Joe Lieberman).
Hillary Clinton missed the vote. Barack Obama did not, and he voted against retroactive immunity.
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