Paul E. Kanjorski: “I stand today first and foremost as an American and secondly as a Member of one of the finest institutions I have ever…”

“I stand today first and foremost as an American and secondly as a Member of one of the finest institutions I have ever had the opportunity to be a part of, the House of Representatives of the United States. I come here with a heavy heart, because I have a tradition in this House that goes back to 1953. I am probably the only Member of this House that participated in the McCarthy hearings in the Senate and many of the un-American activity hearings of the House of Representatives in that period of time. We are about to close the opportunity to protect or allow for the protection of privacy and individual rights of private citizens, one of the few interferences that I can imagine and one of the few protections that private citizens have had for the last 50 years before this House.”