Andy Barr: “Mr. Chairman, we are really talking here today not about thousands upon thousands of court decisions, not about tens of…”

“Mr. Chairman, we are really talking here today not about thousands upon thousands of court decisions, not about tens of thousands of pages of court documents, but about two documents, the Constitution of the United States of America, and H.R. 666. Is it not interesting, Mr. Chairman, that both of these documents talk about reasonableness? They complement each other, they are not antagonistic, they do not fight with each other as the other side would have us believe they are doing here today. We are simply taking that standard of reasonableness embodied in this document, the Constitution of the United States, which includes the word 'reasonable,' which many Members on the other side conveniently disregard in their quotings from the Constitution, the fourth amendment today as does H.R. 666. We are not saying we do not believe in the Constitution. No Member on this side of the aisle needs to allow those on the other side of the aisle impugn our motives or with regard to the Constitution of the United States of America.”