Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I am proud to rise in support of this year's Intelligence Authorization Act. After the recent partisan NDAA debate and vote, it is an accomplishment that this committee came together to produce a bipartisan bill that supports our intelligence community and provides the warfighter with the intelligence support needed to protect the United States and our allies. I am particularly pleased that this bill contains the Counterintelligence Accountability Act that I introduced earlier this year that I wanted to take a moment to highlight for the American public. This bill amends the National Security Act by requiring the FBI to provide quarterly counterintelligence briefings to the congressional intelligence committees, which is not only necessary for us to conduct meaningful oversight over the FBI's counterintelligence operations, but also provides the American people with the comfort that the FBI is subject to the same types of scrutiny as other intelligence agencies. Importantly, this bill also mandates that the FBI notify the congressional intelligence committees when the FBI has a counterintelligence investigation open related to a CI risk to an election or campaign for Federal office. Given former FBI Director Comey's testimony in 2017, I am still deeply concerned that the FBI failed to provide notification to the congressional intelligence committees regarding the investigation opened into the Trump campaign in 2016 until well after the election.…”