Tom Price: “It's affecting the information that they're able to get. But it's communication from a foreign individual on foreign…”

“It's affecting the information that they're able to get. But it's communication from a foreign individual on foreign soil to another foreign individual on foreign soil. This is not between an American individual on American soil to another American individual on American soil. Mr. Speaker, when it's confused and brought into kind of a perplexing dilemma for people and talking about the violation of Americans' civil rights, that's not what this is about. This is about protecting Americans from terrorists overseas. And what we have seen in the last 19 or 20 days is exactly what Senator Rockefeller knew when we see, when he said on February 14 of this year: ``What people have to understand around here is that the quality of intelligence we are going to be receiving is going to be degraded.'' He said, stating before the Senate, that if this bill is not passed, the ability to gather intelligence will be degraded. Mr. Speaker, that means that we are not able to get the intelligence we need. We are now 19, 20 days into not having this bill in place, not having this law in place. And why? I have difficulty when I get asked at home that question.”