Political Quotes

“I think what is still unclear to me is what will be taken up and what votes there will be on this. I believe that the debate is a very important one, that it is one we should engage in and have a significant time to talk about, and there should be amendments. As you know, sometimes the amendments get offered and then things sort of fall away. I want to ensure that on something this important that comes up only once every 3 years and on which the court just below the Supreme Court has said we are doing something illegal, that we don't just gloss over and say we are going to keep on doing something the courts have said is illegal. As far as the end result of where it goes, I want to end bulk collection. So I agree with all of the people on the USA FREEDOM side. I am a little concerned that we might be transferring government bulk collection to privately held bulk collection. In the selector terms they use in the USA FREEDOM Act, it says ``person.'' It says ``specific person.'' I think it defines ``person,'' though, as still including corporations. My concern is that you could write into specific person ``Verizon'' again, and we are back where we started. So if we could get to a point of, No. 1, allowing some amendments to be voted on and maybe changing it such that you can't have--see, to me, the biggest issue here is a general versus a specific warrant. I don't want warrants that you can get everybody's records all at once or even one company's.…”