Political Quotes

“This legislation not only will reauthorize the intelligence community activities that are funded by the Congress, but also, perhaps, will include an agreement on an outside commission that will later be established to look into the events prior to September 11. So there are some important elements to this bill. One of the items I would like to add to it also deals with the subject of terrorism, the Schumer-Kyl bill--that I will describe in just a moment--which is a very small provision in the so-called FISA law that would be appropriately added in this conference as an additional way we can help win the war on terror. Let me begin by discussing just a little bit what this legislation is and why it is necessary, and then I will discuss a little bit further how we would like to have it considered. The bill number is S. 2568, called the Schumer-Kyl bill. It would add three words to the FISA legislation under which we are now able to gather information that is useful in conducting our war on terror.”