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Rand Paul is an American politician and physician currently serving as the junior United States senator from Kentucky, a position he has held since January 2011. A member of the Republican Party, he is known for his strong libertarian views, advocating for limited government and individual liberties. Throughout his tenure, Paul has focused on issues such as healthcare reform, fiscal responsibility, and civil liberties, often challenging both Republican and Democratic leadership on various policies.
The people who argue that the world will end and that we will be overrun by jihadists tonight are trying to use fear. They want to take just a little bit of our liberty, but they get it by making us afraid. They want us to fear and give up…
Mr. President, I will defer to the Senator from New Mexico if he wishes to make an objection.
Reserving the right to object, we have entered into a momentous debate. This is a debate about whether or not a warrant with a single name of a single company can be used to collect all of the records--all of the phone records--of all of…
I object. The PRESIDING OFFICER. Objection is heard. The majority leader. Mr. McCONNELL. Mr. President, I enter my motion to reconsider. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The motion is entered. Mr. McCONNELL. I suggest the absence of a quorum. The…
I suggest the absence of a quorum. The PRESIDING OFFICER. The clerk will call the roll. The bill clerk proceeded to call the roll. Mr. McCONNELL. Madam President, I ask unanimous consent that the order for the quorum call be rescinded. The…
I think one of the most exciting things probably is the court case--the Second Circuit Court of Appeals--and their ruling. My hope, though, had been that it would go to the Supreme Court. My understanding is it has been remanded to a lower…
I guess a followup to that would be this: Are those arguments still being floated from this administration that there are article II powers? There is a debate going on over this Executive Order 12333. The question is whether people are…
I think that is a good question, and the Senator's office and my office have worked for a while to try to come up with FISA reforms. One of them is sort of in the USA FREEDOM Act but maybe could be better, saying that there ought to be a…
Well, I want to thank the Senator from Oregon for the great questions and also for being supportive and really being the lead figure from the Intelligence Committee trying to make this better. I think so often our Intelligence Committees…
I thank the Senator from Connecticut for that question. I think one of the points my friend was making through the question had to do with the whole idea of relevance, which is sort of an amazing thing. I think the quote from the privacy…
Well, one of the comments that we went through tonight was an opinion by one of the attorneys in the Bush administration. They said, basically, that there were authorities that they were given that were inherent authorities under article…
I think it is a great question, and some are saying that through the backdoor of abusing 702, that if there were 90,000 people targeted last year through using this 702, that we collected the information on 900,000 individuals who were…
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