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Mick Mulvaney: “Here is the question: It's a question of balancing privacy versus security. It's a question beyond that. It's a question…”

On the recordJuly 24, 2013
Here is the question: It's a question of balancing privacy versus security. It's a question beyond that. It's a question of who will do the balancing. Right now, the balancing is being done by people we do not know, by people we do not elect and, in large part right now, by somebody who has admitted lying to this body at a hearing. That's wrong. We should be doing the balancing. We were elected to do that. We need to pass this amendment so that we can do the balancing, not the folks who are not elected and whom we do not know.
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Mick Mulvaney
Republican · South Carolina
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govinfo.gov
Jul 24, 2013

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