Eric Swalwell: “I thank my esteemed colleague, the ranking member from California, for yielding the time today, and for leading and…”

“I thank my esteemed colleague, the ranking member from California, for yielding the time today, and for leading and presiding on our side over this bill. I would also like to thank the staff on both sides for their hard work on this year's Intelligence Authorization Act, or the IAA. I also appreciate the opportunity to stand here in support of this year's bipartisan IAA. We ask a lot of our intelligence community when it comes to collaboration. When they collaborate, they best keep us safe. What we are doing today is we are sending to the floor a bill that reflects our own collaboration and shows that what we expect of them, we can also deliver to the House floor. I am pleased that this bill promotes our national security around the globe and, in particular, our human intelligence capabilities, which still, I believe, remain at risk and could benefit from an even greater focus within the IC. I am also pleased that the IAA includes, as a stand-alone provision, the Tracking Foreign Fighters in Terrorist Safe Havens Act that Representative LoBiondo and I brought to the floor earlier this year, which passed the House unanimously and helps track the foreign fighter flows to and from terrorist safe havens abroad, a growing problem in today's world.…”