I think members of congress were definitely threatened. Just look at what Rep. Brad Sherman said about members being threatened with martial law in the US if they did not pass it:
http://www.vloggingtheapocalypse.com...UT__FAILS#main
Now the question I have is since the voting was over today, where did the congress people go? They are now out of session until Nov 17. Are any of them going out of the country asap? What are the plans of TPTB for this coming week? Where will they be? Any way to figure this out would give us a lot of clues as to what's really planned.