Melvin Watt: “I think if you polled every Member of this body, you would get no dispute on that issue. All of us would agree that…”

“I think if you polled every Member of this body, you would get no dispute on that issue. All of us would agree that additional laws are needed to address this dynamic and changing area that we historically have not had to deal with in this country. So the issue is not do we need additional laws. The way I would frame the issue is not do we need additional laws, the question is do we need these laws that are being proposed in this particular bill. And I will submit to you that there are some very, very troubling aspects to this bill. What we are called upon to do really is to draw a balance between the need for additional laws to address terrorism and, on the other hand, the individual rights that individual citizens in the United States are guaranteed under the Constitution of the United States of America.”