Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition of H.R. 4639. Vote ``no'' on H.R. 4639. The bill bans law enforcement from paying for information available to any willing buyer in all contexts. There is no exception, zero. There is no exception to even allow law enforcement to pay for stolen information to investigate and solve identity theft, data theft, data breaches, ransomware attacks. The bill will not make people safer. The bill puts police officers' lives at risk. It bans the police from data used to understand the danger they face when executing a search warrant or an arrest warrant. If this bill becomes law, police will be going in blind when executing a warrant, and this could cost lives. This bill is bad for law enforcement, bad for the intelligence community, and bad for national security. That is why, yesterday, The Wall Street Journal wrote an editorial opposing this bill. It is also why this bill is uniformly opposed by the Fraternal Order of Police, the National Sheriffs' Association, the National Association of Police Organizations, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, the Association of State Criminal Investigative Agencies, the Federal Law Enforcement Officers Association, the Major Cities Chiefs Association, the Major County Sheriffs of America, the National District Attorneys Association, the National Fusion Center Association, and the National Narcotic Officers Association Coalition. Mr. Chair, I urge my colleagues: Do not digitally defund the police.”