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“Mr. Chair, I rise in opposition to this amendment by Mr. Biggs. First of all, I thank Mr. Biggs. He participated in the working group that we had that was joint between the Intelligence Committee and the Judiciary Committee that drafted and put together this underlying bill, including working directly with the Speaker's Office in the second working group that drafted the specific bill, this underlying bill. We disagree about his amendment though, which is why we are here on the debate. This amendment is not about Americans' inboxes and outboxes. This is not about Americans' data. This amendment is about Hezbollah's data, Hamas' data, and the Communist Chinese Party's data. You don't have to take my word for it. Just pick up this amendment. Read the front of the amendment. This amendment says that you need to get a warrant to go into data collected by 702. The 702 data which we all agree--everybody on this floor agrees that 702 data is the collection of foreigners abroad. That is Hamas, Hezbollah, the Chinese Communist Party, al-Qaida. What they want is a warrant to search the inbox and outbox of Hezbollah, al-Qaida, and the Chinese Communist Party when they are communicating with people in the United States. This is dangerous, it will make us go blind, and it will absolutely increase their recruitment of people inside the United States--not even American citizens--to do terrorist attacks, recruit for espionage, and to harm Americans. Mr.…”