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John Conyers: “I yield myself 35 seconds. I want to give Chairman Sensenbrenner the benefit of the presumption of a doubt about this…”

On the recordDecember 14, 2005
I yield myself 35 seconds. I want to give Chairman Sensenbrenner the benefit of the presumption of a doubt about this section 215 business. What happens in the report is it makes it easier to get library and other records under section 215 by creating a presumption that records of anyone to come into contact with a suspected terrorist even accidentally, innocently, is relevant to an investigation. {time} 1315 Madam Speaker, what he has done is he has moved a part of section 215 to another part of the bill, and that is why it does not operate that way. Madam Speaker, I yield 2 minutes to the gentleman from New York (Mr. Nadler), a ranking subcommittee member of the Judiciary Committee.
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John Conyers
Democratic · Michigan
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