Mike Pompeo: “Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to come to the floor today and thank Chairman Rogers and the ranking member for the…”

“Thank you, Mr. Chairman. I wanted to come to the floor today and thank Chairman Rogers and the ranking member for the great work they've done. I do not sit on this committee, but I did have the opportunity to serve in uniform our country. We witnessed what happened in the capture of the world's greatest terrorist, and we saw the great military feats which took place, but we also know all of the enormous work that our intelligence community did to make that happen. I served in a unit that patrolled the East German and Czechoslovakian border. Every day, we relied on the fact that our intelligence community was providing our military with the finest information and the finest data in as near realtime as it possibly could to make sure that we knew how to deploy our forces and knew the things that needed to be done to keep America safe. So I want to applaud the efforts of the Intelligence Committee. I want to urge all of my colleagues to support this legislation and the intelligence community, which keeps everyone in America safe.”