Political Quotes

“I thank my colleague for his statements and would just want to explore this a little bit further. I hope that those who are following this debate understand that my colleague from New Mexico is a real rising star in the Senate. He and I would like the USA FREEDOM Act to go further, and we both worked together on legislation that would make additional reforms. Certainly, our colleagues on the Intelligence Committee and here in the Senate can expect to see us continuing to work together to advance these additional reforms over the coming months and years. For now, the two of us are saying we ought to support the USA FREEDOM Act and then move on--move on to other critical areas. I particularly want to see closed what is called the backdoor search loophole, which my colleague from New Mexico talked about. What this means, colleagues, is that when you are engaged in a lawful search of someone who is a threat overseas, pursuant to section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act, very often law-abiding Americans can get swept up in this search and have their emails looked at. This is a problem today, and my view is it is likely to be a growing concern in the future because, increasingly, communications systems around the world are becoming globally integrated, so the amount of emails that are reviewed of Americans is likely to grow. But we can't get that change here tonight.…”