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“Mr. Chair, I thank the gentleman from North Carolina for yielding. I will just note that I certainly appreciate the intent of my friend and colleague from Texas. Obviously, we want to go after cartels, and we want to make sure we can stop the flow of fentanyl into our communities that is killing and ravaging Texans and Americans across our country. The problem here is it is unnecessary. They can go certify right now. They can go right now and certify a whole other class. We don't need this law to do that. That is the important part. We don't need this amendment, and we don't need to risk expanding it. Be that as it may, here is my real problem. Just today we have information where we had a terrorist on an Afghan watch list who was released into San Antonio, Texas. ICE just walked away from it, and now we have somebody on the terrorist watch list sitting in San Antonio, Texas. So am I supposed to say I want to grant more power to the intelligence community and more power to the government that is releasing terrorists as we speak onto the streets of Texas? It defies any kind of logic. They have the tools to do what they need to go after fentanyl without expanding FISA, which is being abused against Americans. By the way, Mr. Chair, you need the warrant requirement in order to protect against expansion of FISA.”