Ron Wyden: “I ask to speak in morning business. The ACTING PRESIDENT pro tempore. Without objection, it is so ordered.…”

These unsung heroes deserve recognition for their tireless efforts to keep our communities safe and healthy, and I’m honored to be leading this effort in Congress.

As Congress debates solutions to protect our privacy and civil liberties, the MITRE report could provide important information about how these cameras and other surveillance programs are already impacting Americans’ rights.

This interpretation is wildly inconsistent with the longstanding treatment of other provisions that use identical or near-identical language.

The Department’s recent decision in August 2026 to quietly strip explicit prohibitions against political interference from its Scientific Integrity Policy is yet another attempt by the Trump administration to undermine scientific facts and…