Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, to be clear, this amendment is about reporting requirements. However, on the point of the warrant, after the rampant abuses by the Federal Government, it is clear that we should have a warrant requirement under 702 to protect Americans from the querying of incidental communications collected en masse, under a broad reign of power, to target foreign entities. That is the truth. This is the FBI that targeted Catholics, put pro-life progressive activists in jail, and targeted President Trump. The proponents give up the game, saying openly the need to target U.S. persons, right here on the floor. The only thing that makes this warrantless collection of millions of Americans' international communications ``lawful'' is the government's certification that it is targeting foreigners and only foreigners. If the government changes its mind and wants to go after an American, it should have to go back and get the warrant that it skipped on the front end. This is not that hard. By the way, the argument that we would need 2,000 judges to filter through warrant requirements begs the question. Which is it? The proponents' own data indicate they would only get a hit for 1 to 2 percent via metadata. Some of those will have exceptions under our warrant amendment that we offered, so it would probably be less than 1 percent; so the 2,000 judges argument is straight up false. It is just not that hard.…”