While we never believe that any surveillance of Americans was permitted under our bill, we are taking any and all precautions to make it entirely clear that no element of the intelligence community--which, of course, includes the…

On that I demand the yeas and nays. The yeas and nays were ordered. The SPEAKER pro tempore. This will be a 5-minute vote. The vote was taken by electronic device, and there were--yeas 288, nays 127, not voting 17, as follows: [Roll No…

First thing, I want to thank the ranking member, Mr. Thompson, and I want to thank Mr. McCaul and Mr. Rogers for coming together. That's what we're elected to do, to come together in a bipartisan way and to deal with difficult issues. And…

I would like to yield to the gentleman from Virginia, the chairman of the Judiciary Committee, Congressman Goodlatte, as much time as he may consume. And I would also like to thank him personally for working closely with us on this bill to…

I thank the chairman for yielding. First thing, to the Congresswoman from Arizona, I really appreciate all of your work on this bill. You came to Congress; you did your homework; you decided that it was important to protect our country…

I just want to thank the gentlelady from Texas for her hard work on this bill, and I support this amendment.

First, I would like to thank Congressman Barton for his work on the bill. You've made the bill stronger, and we want to make sure that there is no perception that people's privacies are being violated. I support Congressman Barton's…

Woman, I yield 2 minutes to a great Member from the State of Illinois (Mr. Enyart).

I thank the gentleman for yielding. Madam Chair, first, I want to agree with our chairman, and I said it before, that you have been one of the key players in developing legislation to protect our country. From the beginning, when those of…

I support Chairman Rogers' amendment to make a technical change to correct our personal records provision and retain the privacy protections that we had in our bill upon the introduction. I yield back the balance of my time.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Illinois (Ms. Schakowsky), who is a senior member of our committee and has worked very hard on this issue.

I yield 2 minutes to the gentlewoman from Alabama (Ms. Sewell). Is it ``Roll Tide''? She is an outstanding new member of the Intelligence Committee. She's smart. She works hard. She's very dynamic, and she is our closer today.