Jon Kyl: “It seems to me that were there to be additional concessions made, we would no longer have a PATRIOT Act that could…”

“It seems to me that were there to be additional concessions made, we would no longer have a PATRIOT Act that could easily be used by our law enforcement and intelligence people to protect us. It would make it more and more difficult. As a result, you do have to draw the line somewhere and say: Look, if you try to change this any more, it is not going to protect the American people; in fact, it is going to prevent law enforcement and intelligence people from doing their job of protecting the American people. There does come a point in time when you have to say this is it. Either you are going to be for extending this or not, and that is the position we were in last week when the minority--a majority favored moving forward; I think it was 52, 53 votes. A minority said no, but that minority under our rules had the ability to prevent us from moving forward. I will be happy to yield for a question.”