There is a clear delineation in this bill. We permit targeting of foreign terrorists overseas, or Americans, with a court order. This doesn't permit listening in on bulk collections of communications involving innocent Americans. The only American who is going to be listened in on is one calling to or receiving a call from a terrorist. I urge defeat of this amendment.
Discussing provisions of a bill related to surveillance and targeting of terrorists.
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I don't think so. I think this -- in African-American communities, like every other community in the country, the tide is shifting, people are thinking differently.
Well, I think it is. I mean any time a group of people are denied rights and struggle for their rights, that's a civil rights movement.
Of course, it is exactly the same. It's a right that all Americans have and no reason why gay and lesbian people ought not to have these rights too. These are universal rights.
Full equality means enjoying all of the rights that everybody else in the country enjoys. If everybody else in the country enjoys rights one, two, three and four, you have got to enjoy those rights too.
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