this committee should review carefully actual applications for secret searches or surveillances under the new power provided by section 6001

Well, then help me understand. You would say, then, that a nondisclosure requirement is not desirable?

You say, let's come back and look at it in 4 years, just as we have done on the original parts of the PATRIOT Act.

What is wrong in taking ideas, like an administrative procedures approach--subpoenas approach--and not making the conclusion that the government will set out to violate rights?

Thank you, Mr. Chairman.

In fact, you've hardly used that power so far.

OK. I want the FBI to get the information they need. I also want people to feel secure in conducting legal business in the country.

So looking in libraries is not a relatively new thing.

I think that there are those who oppose the PATRIOT Act or want to see it changed because they accept that.

I support reauthorizing the PATRIOT Act and I am inclined to support adding investigative authorities, but only if it can be shown that these new authorities are necessary and would not infringe on the constitutional rights of Americans…

Congress, most certainly, will--to use the President's word--``renew'' all expiring provisions of the PATRIOT Act.

Let's look at are there some ways that maybe we could strengthen it even further.

The PATRIOT Act is coming up for reauthorization. We need to listen to complaints.

I believe the courts have already ruled, have they not, that you have the ability to, for example, if someone puts their trash out on the curb, the courts have ruled you've got no privacy expectation on that; is that correct?

So one of the things here is whether mail should be treated as other things that are put out and once it leaves your zone of privacy.

Tomorrow Mark Lunsford, Jessica's father and I are going to Tallahassee with the attorney general, Charlie Chris. We have a bill before the Florida legislature, they haven't done anything about it. It's called the anti-murder law.

This bill in Florida we estimate next year would cost $54 million. Well guess what, Florida has a $64 billion budget. This is less than 1/20 of 1 percent of the Florida budget.

We have got to make penalties stiff for people who don't stay compliant with Megan's Law.