Political Quotes

“The passage of the Email Privacy Act is an enormous victory. It is a victory for all Americans who believe in the right to privacy, in the Fourth Amendment, and in due process. The Email Privacy Act mandates, for the first time, that Americans have the same legal protection for their emails as they do for papers, letters, faxes, and other old communications. The bill protects those of us--myself included and many Members of this body--who have email accounts in the cloud. Maybe it is Google mail or Yahoo Mail or AOL or other email accounts on their hard drives. It makes sure that the government doesn't have the right, without a warrant, to search emails that are older than 180 days. This bill is also a victory for bipartisanship. When I introduced the bill, along with my colleague Mr. Yoder, in the winter of 2015, we knew it would be popular. Yet, as this bill sits before us today, ready for passage, I am very proud to say it has garnered 314 cosponsors, and it stands as the single most popular bill in this session of the House of Representatives. I am excited that it is scheduled for a floor vote. When Congress passed the Electronic Communications Privacy Act in 1986, electronic communications were different than they are today. They didn't really exist as such. A few professors were using a predecessor for the Internet. It was not a mass form of communication.…”