Phil Gingrey: “The bottom line is what my colleagues have already said. This law originally passed for the reasons Representative…”

“The bottom line is what my colleagues have already said. This law originally passed for the reasons Representative Wilson outlined back in the late 1970s. And it was very much based on the technology of the time. And here we are in 2008, and I don't even have a hard line at my apartment here in Washington. We have a cell phone. And we have a cell phone that has a yearly contract. But, of course, the bad guys, what they do, in regard to cell phone technology, is they buy these throwaway cell phones and these burn cards and it's very difficult to track them. So in the modernization of FISA in the Protect America Act, and indeed in the PATRIOT Act, we tried to bring that law into the 21st century.”