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On the recordApril 30, 2026
Mr. Speaker, what are we opposed to? We are opposed to violating the Constitution. That is what is happening with FISA. It is happening with other provisions of law and court rulings. Mr. Speaker, the third-party doctrine allows the government to go after your phone records without a warrant with a simple subpoena, go after your health records, and go after your bank records. That needs to be reformed. We need to end the mandate on electronic kill switches in cars, the Orwellian technology that would be the judge, the jury, and the executioner, shut your car off midstream and mid-drive if some AI in your dashboard determines that you shouldn't be driving at that moment, Mr. Speaker, or maybe the government determines that. There is a whole slew of ways that Americans' privacy, Fourth Amendment rights and other rights are being violated. Chief among them is the FISA 702 program. We should not do a clean reauthorization of this program.
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Thomas Massie
Republican · Kentucky

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Addressing concerns about privacy violations related to FISA and other laws.

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