Political Quotes

“Mr. Chair, to those opposed to the underlying bill, I understand. We are going to have to agree to disagree, but I cannot imagine being opposed to this amendment, even if you vote against the overall bill. I thought we all agreed that the cartels are one of our number one threats. They are killing tens of thousands of Americans every year by poisoning them with fentanyl. We need to know how they are doing it. We need to know who their suppliers are. We need to know who is laundering their money. We can't know that within our current law. All we have to do is allow ourselves to do it. This is one of the most important things that I think our constituents actually care about. If we are going to act like we have sympathy for the sons and daughters who have been killed from an overdose of fentanyl, then we actually have to take action on it. I have got to say, too, that the warrant amendment would kill our ability to do this. Remember, the whole point of drug trafficking is to get it in the United States. The whole point of terrorism is to conduct a terrorist attack here in the United States. When you are collecting intelligence on foreigners, the only way they do those things is to communicate with entities inside the United States. To demand a secondary warrant just to search that communication kills our ability to connect those dots. Mr. Chair, I yield back the balance of my time.”