Matt Gaetz: “It is not my grave concern that the FBI's building is crumbling. It is my grave concern that the civil liberties of…”

“It is not my grave concern that the FBI's building is crumbling. It is my grave concern that the civil liberties of Americans are crumbling. I wish we were more worried about that and less worried about whether or not we have new carpet and wallpaper at the FBI building. My colleague from Arkansas says that the FBI headquarters is in a state of disrepair. Mr. Chair, it is the FBI itself that is in a state of disrepair. While my colleague from Arkansas may be right that we may not always hate the FBI, how about while we are most concerned about the things they are doing we not go build them a new $300 million building. My colleague says there needs to be a hearing. Let me tell you about the hearing that mattered to me. Frankly, many of my Democrat colleagues are also worried about civil liberties. That was the hearing where we learned that the FBI has conducted over 278,000 illegal queries on the FISA system, or the hearing that said that the Inspector General found that 38 times an hour these people were violating FISA. The notion that we would stand here and defend them, frankly, is deeply disappointing. I think those folks deserve to sit in the rat- infested J. Edgar Hoover Building until they get their act straight with America's civil liberties. Mr. Chair, I reserve the balance of my time.”