Justin Amash: “Woman, my colleague is parroting the same thing we hear each time we try to make any reforms to the government…”

“Woman, my colleague is parroting the same thing we hear each time we try to make any reforms to the government surveillance authorities. These arguments are no longer credible. Just a few months ago, the former Director of National Intelligence admitted that the government ``may have oversold'' the importance of the NSA's dragnet of Americans' phone records when Congress was considering reforms in 2013. Now we have seen reports that the program has been shuttered entirely despite the government's dire warnings about limiting it to protect Americans' rights. Madam Chair, my amendment still allows the government to use section 702 for its purpose of surveilling foreigners overseas. All it does is limit things like collecting fully domestic communications. I reserve the balance of my time.”