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Barney Frank: I just want to say, stop hiding behind varying degrees of constitutional interpretation. By hiding behind them, I mean…

On the recordJune 20, 2006
I just want to say, stop hiding behind varying degrees of constitutional interpretation. By hiding behind them, I mean this: I don't think that people sat and said, oh, geez this is what John Jay told me and this is what I am bound by. I think we are talking here about what we think public policy ought to be. Should the President or should not the President have to get a warrant through FISA? That is the text of this amendment. Let us debate the public policy. I yield first to the gentleman from Washington.
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Barney Frank
Democratic · Massachusetts

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