Darrell Issa: “in just 1 minute it's impossible to assure the American people of everything this bill will do. But I would like too, if…”

“in just 1 minute it's impossible to assure the American people of everything this bill will do. But I would like too, if you will, react to something that was said on the other side that just simply isn't true. Yes, during J. Edgar Hoover's day, there was warrantless surveillance, even on political enemies of the people who were President at the time. Those days are behind us. This act, long since we've taken care of domestic wiretap, but this goes one step further. It insures Americans and particularly, I think, Arab Americans like myself who might go back and forth between here or have relatives in the Middle East, that their conversations will not be the subject of warrantless wiretaps, that, in fact, they can be very confident that America is going to observe the Constitution for them, both when they are here and if they are visiting abroad. So it's not easy to undo some of the statements that talk about the past, but the truth is, this will protect what has already been established for Americans here.”