Nancy Pelosi: “Mr. Chairman, we are gathered here today to honor a compact that our government has with the American people, and that…”

“Mr. Chairman, we are gathered here today to honor a compact that our government has with the American people, and that compact is to provide for the common defense. It is embodied in our preamble to the Constitution, wherein our civil liberties are enshrined. Our Founding Fathers knew that we could do both, protect and defend our country and protect and defend our Constitution and our civil liberties, and that is what we set upon to do in this legislation.”